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The unbasket child has no parents in evidence. She does not materialize memories of parents or a place of origin or anything else when questioned by miscellaneously official people assisting in the search for her source. She continues to exhibit bizarre eating habits - she will eat fruit and vegetables, and it is discovered that she will drink Sprite in addition to water and juice, but she cannot be induced to touch anything less than strictly vegan, nor anything salty or oily, and she eats very little. She likes to sit outside in the sun. She turns out to have a rudimentary ability to read, although her vocabulary is spotty.
It doesn't seem to alarm her that her parents are unable to be found.
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Chris sits down with the unbasket child three days after her mysterious appearance.
"I'm pretty sure we're not going to find your parents," she says. "So. Do you want to stay?"
"I'm pretty sure we're not going to find your parents," she says. "So. Do you want to stay?"
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"All right," says Chris. "We're going to have to give you a name eventually. Want to help me pick one?"
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"It's short for Katherine," says Chris, "but you don't have to use the rest unless you feel like it. Katie Kirsch. Not bad. Do you want a middle name, too? Most people have one."
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"That's our last name," she says. "You need one of those too, and you didn't come with one."
"Oh. I get the same last name but different first and middle ones?"
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"Still thinking about that. Would you mind sharing a room with Lizbeth?"
