Here is a list of the things I have collected today:

• New (to me) rabbit skeleton (gently used)
• Fish scales (found under some wet dirt (strange))
• A pile of acorns (attacked for taking these, but I am not sure if they belonged to anybody (if they are yours, angry raccoon, I am sorry))
• A lizard’s tail (accident, I promise)
• Four rocks
  • One small rock, brown
  • One small rock, grey
  • One medium rock, mossy
  • One medium rock, loose (it broke, so maybe five rocks total? (is a rock divided a single rock?))
• Lovely stick
• Strange plastic container thing that might have ghosts in it because I heard strange sounds coming from it
• Maybe ghosts
• Where did my lovely stick go?
• A bird took the lovely stick
• Is he bringing it back?
• No, he is going very far away with my lovely stick
• Please, do not do that, bird
• Please, bring my stick back, it is my stick
• This is how the angry raccoon must have felt
• I am sorry, raccoon
• I will leave the acorns where I found them
• A squirrel took the acorns
• And now my fish scales are gone?
• Why did I line up everything I collected today so neatly and prominently in front of my cave? I should have known that this would happen and I do not know what to do now
• I just want my stick back, please, bird, give me my stick back
• Oh, the bird is back
• Oh, bird, can I have my stick back?
• No, he took the small rock, too
• Please, stop, bird
• I will bring everything I can into my cave where it might not be so stolen all the time, what have I done to deserve this, I am so scared and upset
• I brought the rabbit skeleton into my cave
• No, now all of the rocks are gone
• Who took them?
• Please, bird, stop taking my things
• The lizard tail is still here and I am very lucky for that and I will bring it back to my cave and place it next to the rabbit skeleton and then I will stay inside my cave and guard those two items and feel grateful that I even have those items to keep and hold and feel good about
• It is gone
• The rabbit skeleton is gone
• Why
• Who would
• do
• this?
• Please
• Is it you, bird?
• Did you take my rabbit skeleton?
• Is it my rabbit skeleton?
• Why do I think it is mine?
• It belongs to a rabbit
• And I just found it
• Just like the bird found my stick and now some ants are carrying away the lizard tail
• I own nothing and that might be for the best
• What if someone assumed they could just take me because they found me?
• I am sorry, bird, I hope you get what you need out of that rabbit skeleton and stick, and I am sure you needed it more than I did
• I really hope there were not ghosts in that plastic thing
• Some berries (ate before I got back to my cave to neatly organize all of my findings)

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