How strange that you, of all of us, would prove to be the most hopeful.

Lying in bed in Key West, reading. My book is Paul Martin’s “Twilight of the Mammoths,” about the Ice Age extinctions in Australia and the New World.

Me: How would you like to have this cat instead of Orange? (reading) “Australasia saw the extinction of the only genus of large carnivore that it had to lose. Sometimes called the ‘marsupial lion’, it was bigger than a leopard and had a large hooked claw on each thumb. Like us, it could move its thumbs independently of its other fingers.”

Luna: SERIOUS?

Me: Mmhm.

Luna: How could a lion with opposable thumbs ever go extinct?

pause

Luna: Did I say something goofy you’re going to put in your blog again?

Me: In this case, I think you raise a valid question.

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