For as long as she could remember,
Clarissa wanted a pet dinosaur. As child, she envisioned playing
fetch with her pet stegosaurus, sending her pterodactyl to fetch
frisbees that had gotten stuck on the roof, or in her more cruel
fantasies, playing tag with her very own t-rex, knowing she would win
easily against his tiny arms. After seeing Jurassic Park
for the first time as a child, her whole world changed. Dinosaur pets
were no longer mere fantasy, but an actual possibility. All
throughout high school and well into college, she poured over the
science and dived head first into any cutting edge research regarding
paleontology, cloning, or a combination of the two. When a professor
finally gave her the cold hard truth, that science couldn't bring
dinosaurs back from extinction, she wept for weeks. Not one to give
up so easily, however, she persevered and finally found success in
the one avenue for dino resurrection left to her: necromancy.
- Originally mailed to C. George in San Diego, California
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