“She’s got, like… all kinds of followers.” “She really has a social media presence?” I asked as she lead me along. Gillian hooked her arm around mine, the first step to leading me out into the world where I’d have to take the first step into another new world. “They’re so easy now, it’s just like… it explains itself. “I won’t, Harrison, I promise,” she said, and she was smiling again, nearly bouncing on her toes. You’re going to have to show me how it works, though,” I said. The new ones probably didn’t even have a place to hang any jingly jangly kitties. I took in another slow breath and let it out again. No one likes that anymore, and we’re going to get you one of the new ones, and you’re going to learn how to use it, and you’re going to understand why the way you live your life has been so upsetting and sad.” She looked at me with wide, serious eyes. “No,” Gillian said, and took hold of my arms again. “If my ninety-year-old grandmother can send me funny video links and have a social media presence, you at least can make it so I don’t have to keep calling you on the phone.” “And you’re smart too, Harrison, I promise,” Gillian said. She gave me one last, slightly harder pat. “Your mom and your grandma are really smart, though,” I said. “And that’s why we’re going to get you one of the new new ones.” She had a hopeful smile on her lips and was about two more blinks away from straight-up fluttering her lashes at me. Gillian loosened her grip to rub my arms a little, like I seemed cold. “I don’t know how any of the new stuff works, though,” I said. Long enough that I’d had that little jangly kitty on two different phones. Gillian had brought it to me as a present after she went to Japan. When she shook me the charm swung back and forth on its little chain, the tiny bell inside jingling. She grabbed me by both biceps and said, “ Too sad!” Gillian took one look at my phone, my very ancient phone that had a cracked face so I couldn’t tell who was calling me and flipped open like an arthritic clam and had a dangly charm of one of those little Japanese waving kittens hanging off of it. He’s still doing so great after all these years.” And I’m fine with how things are now!” I reached into my pocket. The shoulders stayed right where they were, though. “I’m not afraid of change,” I said, and then let out the breath. I took a deep breath and hunched my shoulders up towards my ears. And no more of you being stubborn and afraid of change.” “No!” she said, and poked a finger right at my nose. She was tenacious, like a little terrier, and dedicated to preserving my well-being, like a little terrier. The highs and lows.” I knew I wasn’t going to win this one, though. “It lets you appreciate the full spectrum of human emotion. “A little sadness is good for people,” I said back. “You need to get one,” Gillian said to me.
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