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Well, her nightmare is about
the fact that when she was young

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she used to swim
and pigs can't swim,

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but they've been
bred so that they

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have such a very heavy jowl,
but it's lethal for them

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to actually swim.

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They cut their throats that way.

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Her nightmare about that.

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But I think there are some
young persons in the audience

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and I think I won't read
that one, it's a bit scary.

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"Her Lament."

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I'm going to spend
too much time on these

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but I'll read you "Her Lament"
and "Her Sister," I guess.

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This is "Her Lament."

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"When they caressed
and held in loving arms

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the small pig that I
was, I was so glad,

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I blessed my singular fate.

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How could I know
my humans would not

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grow to fit me as I
became Sylvia the Sow?

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He and she humans
stayed the same,

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and now even look smaller.

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Perhaps I should
not have learned

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to adore pleasures
that could not last.

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I grew so fast.

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My destiny kept me lean,
and yet my weight increased.

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Great Sylvia, I must stay under
the table at the humans' feast.

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And once, scratching
my back on it,

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I made the table
fall, dishes and all.

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How could a cherished
piglet have grown so tall?

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