This is Fruitycake. If there is one word to describe Girl Person, you would be correct to use the word dramatic.
Girl Person isn’t one to take life in a boring way. Everything is an event to her. And mostly be sure there are so many events. Like yesterday. Normally, each afternoon, we take a walk on our path to get the summer blackberries. They will only be around so long, and it helps us save money to make our own jam. And it’s fun. Unless you get bit by the thorns. But they are so good, you keep going and keep picking.
But, Girl Person doesn’t always think things thru. So when she saw a pretty vine with berries on it she didn’t recognize, she touched it. She didn’t eat the berries thank goodness. One good thing happened that day.
But all of a sudden, in the middle of our walk, she started acting strange. Running around, dropping the blackberries, saying she was itching. It was you guessed it…dramatic. Real dramatic.
It was so dramatic that you could add frantic to it too. She rushed home to see if she could figure out what the vine was but she was shaking so bad, she decided to jump in the waterfall. She did a lot of crying and ended up having to get medicine. Yep. You know it was dramatic when that happens.
So our day kind of took a turn to drama town. I can report she was sick all night from medicine and her stomach. But the rash has went down. It doesn’t look so dramatic, but I’m going to be dramatic now.
Girl Person? No one needs certain types of drama. It’s uncalled for.
Wear gloves next time and even better yet, why not put yourself in a bubble?
Dramatic. Some of us have personalities that may be too much for some people. But don’t ever water yourself down unless you get attacked by a vine and have to jump in a waterfall.
–Fruitycake
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Two possibioities (the second one is so much like the first one, I wonder if they’re really the same thing) It does say the second one is native to Europe. “13. Horse Nettle (Solanum Carolinense)
Horse nettle is a member of the Solanum (nightshade) family and bears a striking resemblance to a tomato. The fruits are a green or yellow color and resemble a cherry tomato.
Most parts (fruits, leaves, etc.) of the plants are poisonous, containing solanine – a toxic alkaloid which, upon consumption, causes abdominal pain as well as circulatory and respiratory problems.
bittersweet nightshade
bittersweet nightshade
14. Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
The bittersweet nightshade is native to Europe and Asia and has been naturalized in many parts of the world – including North America. It’s a creeping vine that can reach up to 4m in height – if a strong enough support system is in place.
The presence of toxic alkaloids (solanine, solasodine, and beta-solamarine) make it highly poisonous to humans.
Human poisonings and fatalities are rare, but they do happen.
Fun fact: Bittersweet nightshade plants were hung around the necks of cattle during the Middle Ages to protect them from the evil eye and witchcraft.”