Regeneration (50 of 50)

Sometimes you forget that everyone didn’t grow up in Miami, didn’t worry about getting stung by a man-of-war or scorpion, didn’t have mango and tangerine trees in the yard and didn’t have to board up the house every year or two for a hurricane. Nor did they break coconuts, nor gasp when they grabbed a lizard and came up with only a detached tail which they dropped still writhing on the hot pavement. Nor did they see the lizards in your jar, particularly the one with the tail stub and the pale tip of a light new tail poking out.