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                ❝  DID YOU KNOW  that mushrooms are technically closer to animals than they are to plants ? ❞  it almost makes birdie feel bad, to be talking about how  alive  the little fungi are as she dices up chanterelles for their dinner.  ❝  they communicate, just like we do.  well, not  just  like we do,  obviously.  but they send messages out on, like, electric currents kinda,  &  they travel through their root network.  it’s sorta like what happens in our brains.  they can even talk to trees.  isn’t that neat ? ❞   her fingertips take a pause from their work to lift a particularly lovely chanterelle,  birdie closely examining the tiny folds  &  curling edges that make up the mushroom’s strangely lovely shape,  before holding it out for james to see.  ❝ they’re pretty, too.  maybe i’ll have to paint a  mushroom series  next. ❞