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Monologue -- Alice in Wonderland

"Alice in Wonderland"  – I don’t know who wrote the book with this title, as if Alice is and will forever be enjoying her childhood in a wonderful place full of woodlands, holding a toy bear in her arm. 

I bet no grown-up would like to go through what I did, felling into the hole of a tree trunk and subsequently drinking tea and eating cake with a bunch of animals and meeting strange people in an underground world.

I did not know why my story has bewildered so many people, but that is definitely not to me.  Once, I remembered seeing you, Alice,  my enthusiastic reader who visited England from the East. You walked  along a small street in Oxford and came into a small museum particularly to look for me. I saw you picking up that red book full of illustrations about me and my friends. 

Perhaps you think I did not know why you bought the book. 

You bought it because you have never seen an oak tree an wonder how someone will fell inside a tree. Or perhaps you were curious about me and you have an unfulfilled childhood dream.  Or perhaps you did not want to feel embarrassed when I was still quite popular  in England and you did not even know who I am by taking my name 'Alice'.

However, you did not seems to have realized that I am already out of place in the modern England.

Yes, there are still ancient old trees around but rare. Have you visited  the Royal Oak in Richmond Park . It was circled by high yellow fences and no one can get near it, not to mention kids or animals or owl.  

Recently, I was put in a movie, it seems I am still real to some audience and still some people will put me into their imagination. 

However, if you want to write about me to become famous and popular, perhaps it is better to introduce me as someone who eat and cook vegetarian food and that I can contribute to '' all lives matters''. Or perhaps, you can write about the second part of my life, introducing me in a second episode focusing on how I grew up and become an entrepreneur who sailed through the globe making business in a world dominated by male supremacy. 

This will definitely a real achievement for me. Those are things that you should write to empower women who are going through their own struggles. You can portray me as someone who can stand up in Tedtalks and share my successful story across the globe.

It is really an irony that my ex-writer chose to write about me a tiny vulnerable figure despite knowing that I am wonderful. 

But anyway,  you can choose what you want to think about or write about me.  The choice is all yours.  

Alice  written during lockdown

14 July 2020

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