mementos mori
my not-niece can unlock my phone. pre-COVID i had an obnoxiously long passcode on my phone; it was based on a sentence that reminds me of a woman i went to high school with who died. my phone used to use my thumb to unlock, but i figured it was time for an upgrade so i got the one that unlocks with your face. then we were all masked up, so i couldn't be typing in the mini-soliloquy that is my password every 50 meters to play ingress. so i changed it to a passcode. anyway, stella, now six, can unlock it... she has seen me enter it enough times, and eventually i started giving it to her, and she finally has it memorized so that she can pick up my phone and put on "my little pony: friendship is magic." (side notes one and two: first, i recognized john de lancie of star trek and breaking bad fame as one of the voice actors, and second, i call it "my little brony" which makes stella's mom laugh but also say things like "why am i friends with you?"). a