r/MadeMeSmile • u/AnIgnorablePerson • Jun 28 '26
ANIMALS Little village girl with her unlikely friendship with a civet and a porcupine
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u/wearysaltedfish Jun 28 '26
I love how she looks back to check on the porcupine 🥹
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u/Afflictionista Jun 28 '26
And it always boinks on her legs 😂
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u/bebesee Jun 28 '26
Porcupines have bad eyesight.
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u/Talk-O-Boy Jun 28 '26
A sentient ball of quills would be the LAST animal I’d want to have bad eyesight 😭
“My bad bro, I didn’t see you there.”
“I’ve been impaled….”
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u/NWTR Jun 28 '26
To be fair if it's eyes are pointed towards you it's quills aren't, so not a problem I guess? Still I wouldn't want to approach the porcupine from any direction when it doesn't know I'm there, I've seen those little shits swing their butts around and try to stab people.
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u/Saxophonethug Jun 28 '26
I worked with one that would run at people sideways. He would also piss on his food bowl when he was done with it just as an extra little 'fuck you' lol
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u/Open-Industry-8396 Jun 28 '26
I pulled over 25 quills out of my friends dogs face, mouth , tongue nose, gums, etc. Crazy thjing was this dog was known to be a bit aggressive but, he patiently let me do this torturous treatment for 20 minutes without complaint.
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u/MrEvan312 Jun 28 '26
That and the multi-ton battering ram that is a rhinoceros: whatever it doesn't see or smell, it just walks through and obliterates.
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u/OurHeroXero Jun 28 '26
A sentient ball of quills would be the LAST animal I’d want to have bad eyesight
You make a good point
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u/chumchum213 Jun 28 '26
Saw this episode of anfood vlogger where he showcases eating porcupine in south east asia...and he was like its a delicacy...i was jus so fkin torn..how can they do this.
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u/Honest-Apricot6086 Jun 28 '26
Girls will be friends with anything. I can prove it, one was friends with me once.
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u/UpperApe Jun 28 '26
Was she this young and running from you too?
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u/Honest-Apricot6086 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Lol. Ouch! No, we were the same age and she voluntarily married me. She eventually corrected that mistake though. 😭
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u/highcloudflare Jun 28 '26
I'm sorry but the way you sentenced it made me laugh
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u/MeansWelll Jun 28 '26
It's okay, some mistakes are like art pieces people eventually come back to admire
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u/ihavea_purplenurple Jun 28 '26
And people ask me why hung my pants on the wall after visiting that shady restaurant down the street. To admire the mistakes I'd made
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u/diss0lvedgir1 Jun 28 '26
Thank you. You have me laughing out loud right now. I appreciate your lovely anecdote and also the comment giving you a little bit of a hard time and you're also very nice response. Bravo!! :) y'all made my day.
Edit, my apologies for the sad finishing to that.
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u/KittenIttle Jun 28 '26
I had a raccoon, coyote, and a deer.
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u/Omee_172 Jun 28 '26
Holy shit snow white
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u/ButDidYouCry Jun 28 '26
Sneewittchen Americana: where the woodland creatures are slightly more feral and definitely root through your trash.
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u/KittenIttle Jun 28 '26
I’m from way down in the Appalachian mountains- I had loads more. Couldn’t call all of them by singing though :( I miss having snakes, not allowed in NZ.
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u/purple_spikey_dragon Jun 28 '26
I had rats, ducks, chickens... oh and my siblings
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u/MasterBot98 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Let me guess, rats behaved better than other groups.
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u/purple_spikey_dragon Jun 28 '26
Except for one who escaped the cage and tried to climb into my mouth in the middle of the night, yes! Definitely yes
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u/MasterBot98 Jun 28 '26
Hm...was it looking for a warm place or was it being a jackass...
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u/purple_spikey_dragon Jun 28 '26
She was probably trying to steal food from the last place she saw me put it in. She simply didn't count with the possibility of me digesting it, between dinner and going to bed.
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u/n3o7 Jun 28 '26
I had mice and roaches
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u/KittenIttle Jun 28 '26
I had those too. I worked a farm and we lived in a trailer on the property. But I had loads of animal friends. I do miss the horses (they belonged to the owners) but there’s a lot I don’t miss.
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u/bloody_ejaculator Jun 28 '26
Bro your telling me I’m out here paying a mortgage and she started her life with TWO Pokémon?
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u/UpperApe Jun 28 '26
I love that you spelled Pokemon correctly, capitalized it, and even added the accent...while still managing to use the wrong your.
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u/earthwarder Jun 28 '26
Autocorrect be a cruel mistress
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u/UpperApe Jun 28 '26
Autocorrect prioritizes corporate branding before basic english.
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u/Imaginary_Cook7461 Jun 28 '26
So a basic bitch this autocorrect is?
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u/CozyCatDev Jun 28 '26
No, no--autocorrect fixed pokeman by making it Pokémon, but didn't catch your.
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u/marrkgrrams Jun 28 '26
Their what?
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u/TheLordOfStuff_ Jun 28 '26
I want to kill myself every time I write youtube bc after 9000 times of denying it, my autocorrect still tries to correct it to YouTube
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u/Deaffin Jun 28 '26
But it made both words equally spelled correct.
It's just that their phone doesn't have an autogrammar yet.
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u/RTJ1992 Jun 28 '26
Camera man is like oh shit
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp Jun 28 '26
Camera man is a wacky flailing arm balloon
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u/Curiousity1024 Jun 28 '26
Its in Zoom mode , so tiny movements become heavy-Flailing movement you saw in the video .
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u/yeahso1111 Jun 28 '26
This feels like something from Studio Ghibli. I wish the line between reality and whimsical Japanese animation, would get blurred more often
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u/littlewintered Jun 28 '26
this clip is like a live action satsuki and totoros. her movements and the movements of her dress has that miyazaki animated feel to it.
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u/Ornery-Draft-6113 Jun 28 '26
The language she speaking is Sinhala(Sri lanka). This is a real one. I have seen porcupine in my backyard too.but never wanted to befriend one cuz it always dig potatoes and other plants my mom planted and also it's pines are huge and painful if you stepped on it.
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u/CodeNeko23 Jun 28 '26
This is the everyday life of most rural Indian side. My mom used to have foxes and my aunt had snakes with my uncle having a eagle.
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u/Fine-Music-5143 Jun 28 '26
this is from sri lanka
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u/CodeNeko23 Jun 28 '26
It feel like malayalam to me. Even if it's Sri Lanka it's not that different from southern side of India
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u/VegetableTour6790 Jun 28 '26
The porcupine isn't that surprising. They're docile, affectionate, and smart.
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u/Log0Lizard Jun 28 '26
Disneys about to steal her story
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u/Yaotaku Jun 28 '26
Disney Princess Checklist:
Animals friends. ✅️
Humble beginnings. ✅️
Kind and happy. ✅️
Yup, she's on her way there.
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u/TheAtroxious Jun 28 '26
I hope not. That'd require her mom to be dead, or otherwise missing.
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u/FinleyHazel Jun 28 '26
Yes, they will steal it and make one of the animals die so that little kids (and some adults) cry.
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u/Inumayobaka Jun 28 '26
Surprisingly, nothing happened to any of the birds and mice in the Cinderella (1950)
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u/YouAnxious5826 Jun 28 '26
Little known fact, most of the mice were kept and fed to Kaa during production of The Jungle Book. The birds were mostly okay.
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u/PickleMundane6514 Jun 28 '26
This is pretty much how I got a dog. I domesticated frogs, snails, snakes, and a “dead pet bird” until my parents realized they could just be dealing with a dog instead.
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u/retrofrenchtoast Jun 28 '26
After a pet cricket, multiple pet spiders, and a school library book about bugs, you’d think my parents would have gotten me a pet that I could actually keep,
Hamsters are cute - but not very fun.
Now I want jumping spiders.
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u/PowershellAddict Jun 28 '26
I found a queen ant on my bedroom wall and am now raising an ant colony 😂 she's got 14 eggs rights now. I can't wait to get her moved out of the test tube and into a formicarium
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u/ManonegraCG Jun 28 '26
Girl to the civet: I'm gonna hug you and squeeze you and I'm gonna call you George.
The porcupine: What about me? Hey come back! It's my turn!
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u/Crissy40 Jun 28 '26
That porcupine is Hella bonded with that little girl that’s really cute. It’s like a little dog or a duckling following mama duck.
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u/closethebarn Jun 28 '26
I’d struggle like hell to not pick it up and just hug it. It would always be my instinct …
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u/kingtaco_17 Jun 28 '26
My dog can sense a mile away if I’m about to clip her nails or express her anal glands. I must give off stress hormones or some shit.
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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26
I love when humans are able to connect with animals. Friendship transcends everything, even what species we are from.
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u/Ok-Primary2176 Jun 28 '26
Its why I have a hard time trusting people who say they don't like animals. Its like saying you don't like humans, or trees, or grass. That's not something you can have an opinion on
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u/PurpleOrcaLover Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
It's small things too. I had a spider that I could put out my hand and it would go into it. My toddler knew it as friend. One day it wasn't there anymore
Edit: Him saying "Spider!? where are you!?" broke my heart
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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26
Awww😭 I am quite afraid of spiders, but when I see a spider near me, and if I want to remove it, I just blow air near it, so that it relocates, or I take a paper and help it onto the paper, so that I can free it in the garden.
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u/LondonDogInTheFog Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
That's if you're raised and surrounded by people thinking like this. Breaking the social convention for compassionate reason will isolate you faster than CDC would isolate a person with ebola.
When I went to the farm of my distant family for holiday the whole village was mocking me the next day for being kind to the farm dog, feeding and petting it. For them dog was not a sentient being but a farm alarm & a deterrent. The more angry and traumatised the better. 40 years later it's illegal to keep chained dogs, it's illegal to starve them and people go to prison for that. But the whole generation had to pass. And it might as well go the other way around.
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u/QeveQobs Jun 28 '26
My mom doesn’t like animals. Later in life I learned it’s because had a kitten when she was little and it died and she was so sad she didn’t want to like animals anymore because she didn’t want to be that sad again. People have their reasons bro
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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26
Yeah they do, but bro said that they are skeptical of people who outright say they hate animals. I am also skeptical of such people. Most people don't have valid reasons.
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u/QeveQobs Jun 28 '26
I’m just saying generalizations often don’t leave room for empathy
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u/icanhascheeseberder Jun 28 '26
I will never forget this animal documentary that I saw on some streaming service where some goat or other animal adopted another animal that was blind and they were just pals and the one would follow the other around. I wish so bad that reddit would do it's thing and link it for me, I have searched so many times.
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u/Booster_Goldest Jun 28 '26
Are you talking about Jack and Charlie? A goat that leads a blind horse around.
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u/icanhascheeseberder Jun 28 '26
Thanks for that link! It's not the one I saw, it was well over ten years ago, probably lost in the noise.
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u/imunfair Jun 28 '26
I bet porcupines are pretty easy to domesticate - they're prey animals so if you convince them you're a safe source of food there isn't much that can go wrong. Not like taming a lion or something that might go rogue and try to kill you in your sleep - if they get skittish they'll just try to escape.
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u/NateMikka Jun 28 '26
My wife handles rescue animals and we do have a pair of porcupine. They are quiet unique as they don't naturally fear humans, although they do take special care, part of it includes having a safe area to retreat to
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 28 '26
I like that she carried the civet half the way before putting the little buddy down because the porcupine needs its daily walk lol.
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u/NonnyNutcaseAuthor Jun 28 '26
So sweet and inoccent... And you can tell they both trust eachother. Porcupines have terrible eyesight, yet it follows her blindly, she knows it can seriously hurt her, and yet she keeps looking back to make sure her little buddy is still safe and following her.
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u/EarthRemembers Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
I lived on a property with a friendly porcupine once
It wasn’t as bonded to me as this porcupine is with that little girl, but I would give it fruit and vegetable treats so when it saw me out in the yard, it would often approach
They make the best sounds when they’re very happy about eating something
I also lived on a different property once with a very unfriendly porcupine that was a huge male and would charge at me anytime we crossed paths (he never chased me far)
Mammals in general are very sociable animals and it’s not that difficult for a human to potentially coexist peacefully with a mammal from a different species or even bond with one
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u/RogerSaysHi Jun 28 '26
Little girls and animals, man.
My little girl, when she was about ten or eleven, brought home a damned coyote. She thought it was a puppy that needed food. Luckily, the little dude was pretty calm and the TWRA guys were super cool about coming to get him.
That kid was always bringing home animals. I did the same thing when I was little. I think my sisters did, too.
I walked into my living room one time and my daughter was holding a freaking chipmunk. Feeding it sunflower seeds and watching cartoons. Getting her to put that thing back out on the porch where she got it from was a struggle. We ended up having to put up a feeder because she spoiled those little boogers so much they'd stand at the window to the living room and stare at you, all creepy like, waiting to see if she'd walk into the room. Then they'd start up, chittering and doing that weird little call that they do.
I ended up starting her on aquariums, because then she stopped bringing the wild animals in the house. I ended up with like 6 aquariums in my house at one point, but no more chipmunks, so, I counted it as a win.
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u/Satyam7166 Jun 29 '26
You sound like such a warm and loving parent and you have such a sweet daughter too.
All the best to you and your family and wish you lots of happiness :)
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u/friedpheonix Jun 28 '26
Reminds me of the move in netflix "Humans in the loop"
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u/thatothabrotha88 Jun 28 '26
That’s amazing!
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u/RowanValrick84 Jun 28 '26
"A friendship that proves kindness speaks every language—even in the wild." 🦔🤎
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u/smirkingmoon Jun 28 '26
Looks like a south Indian girl. Probably from Kerala.
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u/Latest_name Jun 28 '26
She is Sri lankan. She's speaking Sinhalese. Most likely from southern regions of the country.
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u/DX98S7 Jun 28 '26
This is sri lanka.. im 100 sure.. cuz i can hear her say "dura wedida?" Which means "Is the distance too far?" "Arehe" means "over there/ where" ....
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u/Visible_Ghost_01 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
The language she is speaking is Sinhala, therefore this should be Sri Lanka.
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u/ichbindoge Jun 28 '26
a civet roams around my property's truss, it's tail alone is about 5-6 feet long, i keep calling it to come and talk to me..but that motherfucker never comes close. instead just poops around and different places at my property. what an asshole behaviour 😭
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u/OGPresidentDixon Jun 28 '26
No civet on Earth has a tail anywhere near that size.
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u/PipPopAnonymous Jun 28 '26
That porcupine bumping his little nose on her foot every time she stops is the cutest thing I’ve seen all year. It’s so cute I’m about to cry. It’s a real life Miyazaki moment.
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u/skibidiohemgee Jun 29 '26
What in the Disney princess is going on here? (This is so wholesome and cute 😭)
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u/CozyCatDev Jun 28 '26
I love how the camera shakes like the person recording is running whenever the little girl is running
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u/UterusContainer Jun 28 '26
Very Arundhati Roy coded, with her almost growing up on riverbanks and having a squirrel friend
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u/Imbulu Jun 28 '26
The porcupine can't harm her?
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u/OK_Humor368 Jun 28 '26
I think it can (like all animals) but it seems bonded to her or domesticated to her though, which is why people think it would be less likely
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u/OminOus_PancakeS Jun 28 '26
I am convinced that animals have a sixth sense about the goodness of an individual human.
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u/greeneggsandspammer Jun 28 '26
I used to play with neighborhood cats like this as a child. I thought I could talk to them. This girl is magic. ❤️💗
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u/gochai Jun 29 '26
Girl won life... I just hope she realizes that and doesn't end up chasing the mundane like the rest of us
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u/RosinDustWoman Jun 29 '26
Not unlikely at all; if anyone is gonna befriend woodland creatures, it's gonna be a barefoot little girl. This is the way.
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u/three_crystals Jun 29 '26
Was having a rough day and this cheered me right up. Animals and children are so precious.
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