9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for July 13, 2005

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"Whatever Burkhardt says he wants to do with you, his aim is conquest...after which, he'd toss you aside like a spent cigar butt." "A cigar butt? Couldn't I be tossed aside like a shattered Delft figurine, or a delicate, broken butterfly with a tattered wing?" "Whereas I'll leave him a fetid, rancid troll, doubled up into a fetal position, begging for mercy in a high soprano through his few remaining teeth." "What happened to all the pretty smiles?" "I save those for myself."