Friends with Secrets

by Christine Gunderson

some people didn’t change as they aged. They just became more so.

Behind every great man—” “Is a woman doing all the real work,” she finished for him.

Scientists were right when they said babies, kittens, and puppies used adorableness as a survival technique. Otherwise, she and the other female mammals would have abandoned their offspring to the tender mercies of the hyenas thousands of years ago in exchange for sleep.