Dearly Beloved,
We are gathered here to celebrate the all-too short life of Cupcake the goldfish. She was the best fish we "ever had". She was a master of pebble picking and spitting, the queen of plastic plant pilfering, and was sensitive enough to seven year old sensibilities do her "business" after we had gone to bed, unlike a certain fishy counterpart who shall be nameless, (ahem Star, ahem). We mourn your graceful swishiness, and your spirited flake consumption. We will miss your burbly bubble blowing.
Cupcake leaves behind a family of humans with varying levels of emotion. Namely, a seven year old who has realized the pain of loving something and losing it. A child who knows that another fish is not a replacement. A child who has been pierced once again by the ever-present spear of growing up. Loving something is never easy; never one hundred percent rainbows and unicorns beautiful. When we see something possessing life, we want it to always be so. Alas, in the history of humans, and especially humans with goldfish, it is not to be.
We are gathered here to celebrate the all-too short life of Cupcake the goldfish. She was the best fish we "ever had". She was a master of pebble picking and spitting, the queen of plastic plant pilfering, and was sensitive enough to seven year old sensibilities do her "business" after we had gone to bed, unlike a certain fishy counterpart who shall be nameless, (ahem Star, ahem). We mourn your graceful swishiness, and your spirited flake consumption. We will miss your burbly bubble blowing.
Cupcake leaves behind a family of humans with varying levels of emotion. Namely, a seven year old who has realized the pain of loving something and losing it. A child who knows that another fish is not a replacement. A child who has been pierced once again by the ever-present spear of growing up. Loving something is never easy; never one hundred percent rainbows and unicorns beautiful. When we see something possessing life, we want it to always be so. Alas, in the history of humans, and especially humans with goldfish, it is not to be.
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