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My name is Milo Kim and I am very bored.

I’m so bored that I’m following an ant. I think it’s bored too, hey. It doesn’t seem to know where it’s going.

The ant and I are walking very slowly along the street outside my house. I live at number one, Turtle Place.

Mum and Liz say our street is called that because it’s slow and free of drama. I dunno. Seems pretty obvious to me. Our street is shaped like a turtle so what else are you gonna call it?

I think the ant looks lonely. Why don’t you have any ant friends? Where’s your mum? Or your big bro? Did he join the army like mine?

I wonder if the ant knows whether there’s an actual war going on. I don’t. Whenever I ask Mum she tells me I should be doing clarinet practice. Whenever I ask Liz, she tells me to talk to Mum, which just brings us right back to the clarinet.

So I’ve stopped asking. I hate my clarinet.

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