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new! Events Calendar Oct \| Nov \| Dec Jan \| Feb \| Mar Apr \| May \| Jun List Your Event! in issue eleven Scintillations Playing Boggle Seduction in the Snow Curious Rain The Opposite of Peas Playing in the Vertical World Bring on Broadway (Parents) Snorkeling Past Fear You Won't Get Far In Those Shoes Legos Freedom From Five Feet Chasing Shadows Mozzarella No More! Letters FROM My Younger Self Moody Girl photography & artwork Dandelion, Elm, & Firefly Faeries Dog Wearing A Cone Apples Sun Petals & Sprawling Daisy Poppy Field workshops Play With Your Words Writing Workshop Making Friends With Money what you say about Be Real contributors Do You Want To Contribute To Be Real Magazine? take me back To The Cover To The Contents Page in every issue What Do You Think? Subscribe To Be Real future issues Issue 12: Synchronicity Issue 13: Danger Issue 14: Home Issue 15: Transitions previous issues	You’re the opposite of peas. When I was little, Oh, I’d say about three, my mother made us dinner and told me to eat my peas. I explained to her that I did not want my peas. “I won’t like them,” I said. “You don’t know until you’ve tried,” She said back. “I disagree. I know that I will not like them,” I told her. “And so I don’t understand why I would eat them, if I know I won’t like them.” But she didn’t see my point. “Eat your peas,” she demanded. I flicked one off my plate; My cat chased it down the stairs. She frowned. “Eat-your-PEAS,” She boomed. I mashed them into green paste. She pointed sternly at my plate, But said nothing. “Will it make you happy if I eat them just to show you that I do not like them?” “Yes,” she said. I scooped up a spoonful; Pinched my nose for effect. I put them in my mouth, and swallowed. Then I gagged. I did not like my peas. I knew that I would not before ever having tried them. You’re not like these peas. You don’t smell; You do not roll about my plate indecisively. You do not make me want to go to bed hungry. You’re the opposite of peas.


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