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December 2008 
I was a weird kid : Ghost Dog
Posted on Jan 8th, 2007
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Julienne
Julienne
My mom just reminded me of the imaginary dog that I had when I was four years old. His name was "Butterball" and he was a reddish cocker spaniel mixed breed.
One day I was in the front yard playing with him when our neighbor from the end of the block walked by. She heard me calling "Butterball!" and stopped in her tracks. She walked up to my Mom who was weeding around the front stoop. She hadn't been paying much attention to my antics - she'd grown used to having a weird kid. An invisible dog was much easier (and cleaner) than a real one so what was the harm?
It turned out that the neighbor had a reddish colored cocker spaniel mixed breed named Butterball and he died the year before we moved onto the block. I don't remember much but my Mom says we weren't invited to the block parties again.
Man I was a weird kid.
One day I was in the front yard playing with him when our neighbor from the end of the block walked by. She heard me calling "Butterball!" and stopped in her tracks. She walked up to my Mom who was weeding around the front stoop. She hadn't been paying much attention to my antics - she'd grown used to having a weird kid. An invisible dog was much easier (and cleaner) than a real one so what was the harm?
It turned out that the neighbor had a reddish colored cocker spaniel mixed breed named Butterball and he died the year before we moved onto the block. I don't remember much but my Mom says we weren't invited to the block parties again.
Man I was a weird kid.
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I love that story. It reminds me of one my mom tells. When I was born she had a cat named Nefi. Nefi really didnt like sharing the attention and literally starved herself to death. My mom was greif struck. 2.5 years later my sister is born and pretty early on my mom started thinking of Nefi when my sister was around. When my sister was around 2 my mom asked her one day “Chris, are you Nefi”. My sister stopped crawling and looked my mom dead int he eyes and said “meoooow”
Goose bumps everytime I tell you.
That's an awesome reason not to get invited to parties!