Cait: What is that on your arm? Is that a birth mark?
Me: Yes
Cait: Has that always been there? Did I just not notice?
Me: It’s this thing I’ve had since I was born. It’s this… mark.
Cait: Well it COULD BE something that only comes out in the summer
Me: ‘snot
Cait: It looks like a state! What’s that state
Me: I dunno. Nebraska?
Cait: Illinois!
Me: It does not look like Illinois.
Cait: It doesn’t look like anything but it COULD be Illinois if you squint funny
Me: Except it looks exactly like Nebraska
Cait: Who would even know what Nebraska looks like?
Me: Me… and people who are trying really hard to earn their citizenship but wound up in a cage instead
Cait: Dude.
YOU DECIDE, AUDIENCE. WHAT DOES MY BIRTHMARK LOOK LIKE?
New Jersey!
I mean… maybe?