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It felt a huge, but I was so...

And I just thought, well...

It was that golden moment.

Because science was on my side.

Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives.

This week's storyteller is Robin Abrams.

The story was recorded in December 2012 at the Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The theme of the event was, it takes guts.

So, I'm nine years old.

The next door neighbor comes over with a big cardboard box.

In the box, handfuls of freshly mown grass.

On the grass, two little baby rabbits, small enough to fit in the palm of my hand.

Do I want them, he says.

He was out in his yard and had picked them up without thinking twice,

and now he realized that his mother might reject them.

Do I want to try my hand at raising them?

Do you not understand that I am a nine-year-old girl.

Some distinct and more alto part of my mind says, as the rest of me shrieks agreement in

a pitch so high that a neighborhood dog started to bark down the block.

Of course I want the bunnies! My mother wanted to sue the guy.

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