I wouldn’t mind being a dog, said Izzy. If you’re a dog then you get older faster. Dogs are never really teenagers. They’re just babies for a few months, and then adults for the rest of their lives until they get put to sleep. It seems civil, said Izzy, to not have to be a half thing, a half human, a.k.a. a teenager, for which things are so in-between for so long that it seems impossible to understand the way things really are. ◆
