Giant Rats and Honey Bees
At a very young age, before I really knew the concept of "home" (probably because we were always somewhere new) I found myself in the middle of a tropical paradise - Puerto Rico. With my mother tending to my baby sister, and the rest of the adults doing their adult-things, I would follow the other kids, especially my young cousins who seemed much freer than I. They tried desperately to teach me to do a headstand (of which I was certain would lead to a dislocated head) and converted me to running everywhere barefoot. We would run around to honey bee hives, smearing the sweetness all over our faces and chewing up the comb like gum, tumble down grassy hills and sneak around watching the adults and older kids. There was always one place though, that I had only heard stories of and dared not enter -- the forest. Looking back, perhaps it could have been a grove of trees, but even now I can still see the looming dark foliage and the shadowy dirt path leading in. I don't know what possessed me to follow C into the grove, but the whole way in he kept telling me to be careful because of the giant rats that would attack if we made too much noise. I tiptoed in and kept my eyes big and my ears open. I could hear little noises from the canopy of leaves above, most seemed tame enough - birds. C, who had gone a bit ahead would look back with a mischievous look in his eyes. Eventually C's quite look turned into the making of loud noises and running off to leave me terrified at the shaking of the leaves all around me. I couldn't go back (I was too far in), so the tiptoes grew quicker and my eyes grew bigger - until I saw them - EYES, looking back at me from inside bushes and trees! BIG BLACK AND WHITE EYES! That is when the rats chased me. I can tell you as a certainty that they were giant black rats - almost the size of my 6 year body, and that I didn't just run - I FLEW out of the forest and all the way back to the house!
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