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“...I’ve been sitting here for the past few minutes, trying to figure out what to say. I mean, this is the first time I’ve used this...um, I think this is supposed to be my...diary, I guess? I prefer the term ‘journal’...not like there’s a difference, though. Well, ‘journal’ has two extra letters and one less syllable, actually. Why is that, anyway? Why would a word with less letters have more syllables than a word with more letters?
“Oh! I’m getting off track now...not that there was any track to begin with. Anyway, to whoever’s listening to this: hi! I’m Cobalt Blue, but everypony calls me Coby. Dad got me this recording device for my tenth birthday...which was today, actually! But I’ll get to that later. I need to stay on topic. Sorry if I’m kind of easily distracted; I didn’t take my Bitalin today.
“Anyway, he got me this device for recording my voice, and said I could use it to keep an...what did he call it? Aw-dee-oh...audio diary. Yeah, that! Kinda like the one mom has...though I’m still upset at her over that.
“...I...I’ll get to that later...I don’t want to start off with something like that...
“A-Anyway! Um...so, this device. I managed to fool around with it and programmed it into my PipBuck, so I don’t have two separate machine things. I’m not supposed to have a PipBuck yet, really, so hopefully nopony’s listening to me record this.
“...nope, I’m safe!
“So my life’s been...well, compared to the lives of everypony else in Stable 14, pretty good! Mom is the Overmare, and dad...I don’t actually know what he does. I think he said he’s a doctor or something like that. He spends a lot of his spare time showing me machines and computers and stuff. He even said that I could grow up to be a technician! ...if I could get my freaking cutie mark already.
“Since I was born, I tried talking to other ponies my age, but they always just left me. A lot of times they said it was because I was too annoying, but I was on my Bitalin for at LEAST some of those times!
“Dad says that I’ll ‘make friends someday’. Friends...is that what you call somepony you talk to? I hadn’t really heard the term until a few weeks ago. Well, I might have heard it before then, but I wouldn’t have remembered. My memory isn’t that good. But that’s why I’m doing this; to keep a log of my life, so other ponies - or myself - can listen to it in the future!
“...of course, I doubt it’d be very interesting to listen to. It’s the same day-to-day stuff. For ten years it’s been like that. So let’s skip all the boring stuff and get right to where things got exciting!
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“S-Sorry...I’m...still having trouble thinking about what I heard...on mom’s audio diary...
“Okay, n-no more stalling! Let’s just get to it, okay? Yeah! Alright, so it was two days ago...