What started out as this:
Revealed this:
Which, eventually, led us to this:
Ermagod, was that really behind the wall when I took baths, slithering around on the hot water pipes? Sorry we had to kill you, big Texas Rat Snake, but you were too huge for me to live with.
Speaking of Snakes and Texas, if you are in New York, go see my friend Molly’s off-off-Broadway play, Snakes I Have Known.