I went into the Long's Drugs by my physician's office and then was waiting in line at the cash register. A few people were in front of me. Suddenly, a little Polynesian girl, about six or seven years old came directly in front of me and held up a candy box with a lizard, or mo'o, perched on it. She looks excitedly at the older woman standing in front of me, as she holds the candy and lizard up in the air, and says, "Look Grandma! Look what I found!" The grandmother frowns and gives here a funny face then looks away. Undaunted, the little girl then picks up the lizard by her tail and holds her up inspecting her while many looked on. My heart stopped, as I thought the lizard's tail would break away, as they often do, as the lizard, who looked listless and sickly up until that point, wiggled frantically back and forth hanging upside down. Thankfully, she put it back down on the candy box. Seeing as most people in line began averting their eyes from
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