coldSarah Zellaby loves math, comic books, bad procedural dramas, and drinking hot ketchup mixed with orange juice and honey. And that's about where her dating profile goes off the rails (not that she dates, really; who wants to go out with a cryptid telepath who just looks like a cute geek girl?).
Sarah is a cuckoo.
She's never met her biological parents. They left her on the front porch of the Zellaby family of Cincinnati, Ohio when she was less than a week old, and the Zellabys took her in, believing that she was theirs. That's how cuckoos work. They leave their young in other nests, letting other people handle all the difficult, awkward parts of raising a child, and only come back when their precious babies inevitably turn on their human parents. There are very rarely survivors. Sadly for the Zellabys, they didn't survive; they were killed in a car crash when Sarah was still a little girl, leaving her to fend for herself.
She could have found a new human family. She could have found the cuckoos. Instead, she found Angela Baker, maybe the only non-homicidal cuckoo in the world, and her salvation.
Sarah grew up knowing that murder was wrong, which puts her well ahead of most of the cuckoos in her generation. She grew up with a family that loved her, no matter what she was, and with a strong sense of purpose.
Let's see how long that survives contact with the real world...and how long it takes for the cuckoos to come looking for their own.
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February 26 2012, 17:47:53 UTC 5 years ago
Yes, it is.
It would have been "Wyndham," but I was afraid that with the Price family running around, I'd get lots of bad "Wesley Wyndham-Price" jokes, and just no.
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I'm curious about Angela, too, now.
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February 27 2012, 00:51:18 UTC 5 years ago
On a side note, I am fond of informing one of my best friends, who's been an egg donor on several occasions, that she is a cuckoo or a cowbird (because she pawns her eggs off on other woman's, er, nests.) She thinks this is hilarious. I am very tempted to link her to this and go "See. Look. There are more of you!"
She has remarkable blue eyes though, alas, she has very light blond hair.
Unless she's bleaching it secretly.
Hmmm....
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February 27 2012, 14:50:02 UTC 5 years ago
That sounds like someone we know......
:)
February 27 2012, 17:40:34 UTC 5 years ago
Maybe.
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