Miss Peach Explains
Promiscuity to a Toddler
by Catie Rosemurgy

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Miss Peach Explains Promiscuity to a Toddler
    Catie Rosemurgy

Say this yellow square block is bored. Say she’s bored because she’s always been a yellow square block and has always been stacked up and knocked down with other yellow square blocks, and it seems to her that “yellow,” “square,” and “block” are not enough characteristics to learn. So one day she goes to the couch where she meets a lot of blue rectangles. The idea is to stack up with them and make something she hasn’t seen fall down before. When she gets her hands on her first blue rectangle, like you, she can’t keep from examining it. She examines many and figures she’ll never tire of it. One of the rectangles, however, strikes her as unusually blue. To you and me it might not look that different from the other blue rectangles, but she likes it so much, as if it is far superior. So it might as well be far superior. She enjoys this discovery and wants to do it again. She wants to go further across the carpet. She wants another chance to make something superior just by liking it.