Chee and Li Po, the twin golden tabby cats, celebrated their birthday this past weekend.
Chee: Why all the toys and tuna?
Li Po: The humans are celebrating our birthday.
Chee: What's a birthday?
Li Po: I'm not really sure but we get toys and tuna.
Chee: There must be more to it than that.
Li Po: The human's say we are two years old.
Chee: What's two? What's years? What's old?
Li Po: I'm not really sure but we get toys and tuna.
Chee: Come on. You're the smart brother you must know more than that?
Li Po: About what?
Chee: Birthdays, what are they?
Li Po: (heavy sigh) Okay. It has something to do with death.
Chee: What's death?
Li Po: I'm not sure. It's something people want to avoid so they have these birthdays to show they avoided it and so they are happy.
Chee: So birthday good. Death bad.
Li Po: I think that's it. They fear death the way we fear the vacuum cleaner.
Chee: Wow. Death must really be scary? I hope it never happens to us.
Li Po: Don't worry about it. Just eat your tuna.
-- Rich Seeley
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