My mother said I was never any trouble except when I fixatedon something I wanted, like a...

[child]
My mother said I was never any trouble except when I fixated
on something I wanted, like a dog on a pork chop. So that's what she'd call it.
My pork chop. When I was six,
my pork chop was a goldfish. When I was nine,
it was a pack of butterfly hair clips. Multicolored. But my biggest pork chop,
the one I obsessed over and had to wait
until my 13th birthday for, and still work off
five months' allowance to get, was a mountain bike. [family chattering]