Not long ago I was lured into one of those overpriced "rare tea" stores and out of guilt purchased 2 ounces of white tea and a six dollar aluminum tin which I "needed" in order to preserve my purchase. This was a few days ago, and out of boredom today I decided to brew a single cup. The blend involves white tea, cloves, black pepper, coconut, and all sorts of frightening things. It had a subtle peppermint flavor and a slight numbing effect on the back of my throat. Being a neophyte of the tea world, I had but a poorly constructed steeping ball (is that what they're called?) and as a result quite a few leaves escaped into the light amber liquid. I enjoyed my tea and made the decision to attempt to read my tea leaves, a practice which I was only vaguely familiar with. I swirled the leaves around and allowed them to settle. What formed before me was an almost life-like image of a rhinoceros, a single leaf forming a sharply terminated horn at the tip of its muzzle. Aghast, I swirled the leaves several more times and came up with nothing but images of rocks, or perhaps ants. Needless to say Google certainly didn't provide an explanation for the misplaced rhinoceros, and I was left to try and form my own conclusions. Who is a rhinoceros? Certainly I have felt rhinoceroid at times, figuratively or otherwise. Or perhaps there is a rhinoceros in us all.
Perhaps not.
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