Isatou Pippi taught me the Pulaar word for tick and described how they will drink a dog’s blood until their body gets big. She asked if Levi had any ticks. I said he did not.
I tried to continue the conversation with an attempt to describe Lyme disease, which is all I really know about ticks. The best I came up with was “America also has ticks. But in America if a tick drinks your blood, you will be sick.”
Isatou Pippi had nothing more to say.
Neither did I.
Ticks make for really boring conversation.
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