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The Nothing Family Tree

A conversation between friends—

Karen Jones: Do you know Can’t? Well, he never did anything. Fool.

Terri W: Because he was spending too much time with Won’t….and well, you know how that goes.

Karen Jones: Can’t and Won’t are cousins. Scared is married to Can’t. She’s always hiding in the shadows, behind Can’t.  Excuses, well he enables Can’t and Scared to never do anything.

Terri W: Did you know that Won’t has a twin, born just a second later…Wouldn’t. Crazy huh?

Karen Jones: Excuses married Can’t and Scared. He’s their priest.

Terri W: Able was adopted…and a total misfit. Able is an overachiever and so optimistic. Have y’all met? You’d get along real nice.

Karen Jones: Yeah, but too many people try to stop Able. They find him annoying, because they aren’t like him. I guess that’s why Able doesn’t live with the Nothings anymore. He left. I hear he’s engaged to Can, from the other side of the tracks.

Terri W: I think I met Scared once…she was so timid and like you said always hiding in Can’t's shadow. How sad.

Karen Jones: But I think Apathy may be the worst. She isn’t interested in anything at all. She just sits there, like phlegm.

The Nothing kinship really is a dysfunctional family.

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