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[There's the sound of metal on metal, and then an odd clicking, like heels on cement. The singing is low and soft, like she doesn't want to be heard]

The itsy-bitsy spider went up the water spout,
Down came the rain and washed the spider out,
Up came the sun and dried up all the rain,
And the itsy-bitsy spider went up the spout again.

[There's a pause, and a breath.]

The itsy-bitsy spider went up the water spout,
Down came the rain and washed the spider out...

[Her voice is technically very nice, but there's an odd flatness about it.]

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Doesn't everyone?

Not the kids in China. Then again they don't have enough food to eat.

Children in China nonwithstanding.

Why wouldn't they have enough food?

You know what? I never asked. All I know is that would be the yap I heard if someone's plate wasn't cleared.

[There's a pause]

My nanny told me to think of the bushmen.

[This well to do gal here with a nanny.]

Bushmen? Like wild men living with-with wolves?

No, the people of the Kalahari. They're a tribe, in Namibia.

[This. Gal. Here.]

...Sounds like Africa.

Southern Africa.

Southern Africa. Never been myself.

I was born there. I grew up there.

I don't think there's anything boring about you.

Because I am an African national?

Or is that simply part of it?

Part of it.

I got a deep respect for African people they go through some shit.

I always found things very easy. But I'm white. It makes it different.

You never found things to be tough given where you're from at all?

I can't donate blood.

Their loss. You need it.

I don't think I can donate blood. Hah. Never tried.

I thought that it was a civic duty.

I'm kind of exempt. I don't do jury duty either.

Are you a lawyer or a criminal?

Are those the only options?

Postal worker.

Through rain, snow and sleet.

I don't think you're a postal worker.

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