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The Birds and The Bees… at the pound?

This has got to be the most interesting child’s explanation of human reproduction I’ve ever seen:

“You’re lying,” Anna says. “The man and the woman go to the pound. They pick out a dog. They bring the dog home and they feed it baby food. And then one day all the dog’s hair falls out and it’s pink. And it learns how to talk, and it has to wear clothes. And they give it a new name, not a dog name. They give it a baby name and it has to give the dog name back.”

Anna is a little girl in the short story “Louise’s Ghost” which is in Stranger Things Happen.

I have to say I didn’t come up with anything half so interesting on my own as a little kid.

Comments are open, especially if you know of an unusual “how babies get here” story.