former friend
there was a crudely-built-but-still-somewhat-recognizable lego person sitting on the train table when i came home from work a few days ago. prompted by my mother, paul said its name was dress-paul. paul had been carrying dress-paul around the living room earlier in the day. they had watched tv together.
later that day dress-paul was destroyed, reduced to lego rubble. sitting on the floor with paul, i built a new person -- one with a blue dress and green hair.
paul: dress-paul!
but this (re)incarnation of dress-paul just sits on the table. paul does not watch tv with it. i should have known not to try to replace the first one so quickly. clearly he needed time to mourn.