Daily writing prompt

If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?

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…would I want to bring back dinosaurs?

I enjoyed them as toys when I was five and still unclear on the concept of extinction. The Noah’s Ark at my kindergarten, a wooden boat stocked with little plastic animals, included two brontosauri and three triceratops (one of them a baby), survivors from a plastic bag of dinos the boys had slowly looted. Sometimes those interlopers joined the paired line I’d carefully arrange going into the ark at playtime.

I never daydreamed about having them as pets, however, or interacting with them beyond running away if I saw one.