Remember the "Ballad of the Crystal Ponies"?

Fluttershy sings the line "They had a petting zoo with tiny ewes."

What if this book, being old, isn't an exact translation, and "Petting Zoo" is actually a euphemism for a brothel. You know, like the other definition of petting:

Phrase used in old-fashioned teen sex manuals for foreplay without intercourse.

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Hiya, lovely peeps.

Let me set the scene.

My mother, Ma, has three siblings. Relevant to today’s story are her two brothers. Her older brother, Uncle 1, and her younger brother, Uncle 2, live in the same building, on two different stories. Uncle 2 lives with their mother, Nani, downstairs, and Uncle 1 lives with his wife and daughter, Cousin, upstairs. The two stories are two separate households - legally, financially and family-wise.

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