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// Family 
// Story: Atychiphobia 
// by Ice Star 
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i am a lucky filly
nopony fights over me
in my house
i am the Sun
there are no brothers and sisters
it is just me
i am the only one

my grandmother loves me
i really
truly
couldn't want more

except 
for that one day
we don't have to go 
where the woods end
to the stone forest

and talk
about how big i've grown
and how they're missed
and be quiet sunnybun say hello
to mom and dad

because i am sunset shimmer
and i am smart
ponies don't come from stones
but i think that place is filled with ghosts
the kind the gods have yet to gather

because

there are no bugs in the grass
it's always short
to show grandmother's flowers
and i sit in the ocean of them
talking to two stones
like they're the ponies
i never knew

i can't imagine what it's like
to have two ponies 
wanting me
bringing me here
and there
telling me
that they love me
and not knowing which one
is the winner that loves me more

sometimes i do like to imagine
if grandmother was a little different
not as wrinkly
still here forever
always watching over me
never telling me to go play
or playing cards for ever
and ever

my junior dictionary calls that a mother
and grandmother tells me 
my daydream is bad
and nopony gets new mothers

did she forget how birthday wishes work? 
maybe grandmothers weren't able to wish 
upon stars
or hearth's warming
smooth pebbles
or new spells
i tell her this, and she says i'll find a new wish soon...

...does the tooth breezie deliver a bit and new roller skates?