My cats origin:
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A momma cat showed up pregnant and had her kittens under the trailer we were living in. The rest of her kittens disappeared, and she was a feral, but we took the remaining kitten in, our bestest baby boy.
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Adopted from shelter so #1 would have a friend. It didn't work, he only likes humans lmao. Fortunately for her, a few months later...
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We heard what we thought was a injured bird outside our apartment in the middle of the night. Turned out to be an oil covered baby kitten. She was adopted by #2 :)
The first time I realized I was, for lack of a better word, different than the people I grew up around is when one of my high school buddies just casually said we should "just glass the middle east and get it over with". Glassing is a term we got from Halo which means to incinerate an area with such a high heat the surface turns to glass. His proposed method was obviously nuclear bombs.
No one else thought it was an outlandish thing to say, much less a truly abhorrent one.