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Tag You’re It — But Not Really

Terrye Turpin
4 min readNov 27, 2019

My responses to Mark Starlin’s thought provoking (as opposed to just provoking) questions

I had my secretary type out the answers to these questions. (Just kidding, she has no arms)
  1. If a cosmic blast of animal-matter rays hit the Earth, turning all humans into animals, what animal would you hope to become, and why?

I would be a sloth. They sleep 10 to 20 hours a day. How soon can we arrange that animal-matter ray thing?

I definitely do not want to be this fellow

2. If you could go back in time to any place, when and where would you go and why?

If I could go back in time I’d go to October 2012, to my second date with Andrew. I ran down a hill to kiss him, it was just like a scene in some corny chick flick. That feeling when you first meet someone, and you’re nervous and excited and wondering if it will last and thinking how marvelous and thrilling it is to just be near this person. Yeah — I’d relive that. It did last, by the way, we got married last year.

Our cake toppers — “I love you,” “I know.”

3. What is your ideal meal?

My ideal meal would be a buffet, where all my friends gather and bring their…

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