conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  They simply regarded me with unbridled curiosity. I was living in Rae and Claire’s room for the time being. Claire was currently out, leaving me alone with May and Aleah. I had no knowledge of housekeeping tasks, so I looked after May and Aleah instead—although it might be more appropriate to say they looked after me.
conversations.prefix: May/Aleah:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Nothing is wrong. I was simply thinking about how cute you two are."
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  As pope, I did not often have the chance to freely express myself, and this was a good opportunity to learn. I’d been taught to watch my words, expressions, and even my thoughts to best serve the church, but I’d never thought of it as a burden. This was how I’d been raised. My purpose was to be the symbol of the church. It was what I had been created for.
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Are you praising us? Hey, hey, are you praising us?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yes.” I nodded, causing May to smile happily.
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “You’re supposed to smile if something’s cute.”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Smile?”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Yeah. Even if you say we’re cute, we don’t know if you mean it with a face like that. If anything, it’s scary.”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “How does one smile, Aleah?”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Huh?” Aleah looked at me in surprise, caught off guard by my honest question. “Do you not know how to smile?”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I do not.”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Haven’t you smiled before?”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Not that I can recall.”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Oh, no! May, we need to do something!” The twins began conferring. Smiling seemed to be terribly important.
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I know!” May began. “We just gotta do this!” She began tickling my sides. “Huh? Aren’t you ticklish?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “It is very ticklish.”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “But you still won’t smile.”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “It seems not.”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Then you join too, Aleah! Two is better than one!”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Okay!” Aleah joined in the tickling. But it didn’t seem to change anything. “She still won’t smile?”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I thought that’d do it…”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  I didn’t smile. I was ticklish indeed, but it didn’t result in a smile. The two girls continued to try various things, but to no avail. "I’m sorry, girls."
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “It’s okay. I guess some people just don’t smile very easily.”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “But the two of us smile all the time, don’t we, May?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yeah…”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “But, Your Holiness, you really think we’re cute, right?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yes.”
conversations.prefix: Me:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Then I’m sure you’ll smile one day! Because Mama Rae always says ‘cute is justice’!”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Cute is justice?” The connection between justice and smiling eluded me. Just how deep down the rabbit hole did smiling go?
conversations.prefix: Me: