My Monkey

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By Yuat Ping Ng, March 14, 2019 — Growing up in Hong Kong, my family had a pet monkey. Back in those days, everybody smoked and the monkey saw that. One day my uncle left out his cigarettes and matches and the monkey took them and tried them [to light a match and smoke a cigarette]. The money ended up lighting our house on fire and my uncle shot him.