Poor Jonesy. He would have been the valedictorian of his class at Sanity Creek School of the Arts if he’d only shown up for that AP chemistry exam. But he’d been up most of the night at a candlelight vigil to protest the first Gulf War, and he didn’t hear his alarm clock. Everyone calls him a genius, but he just claims to have good study habits.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 8
Peacenik Collection
Number 1
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ADOPTED
Dodie is the undisputed jacks champion of Sanity Creek. When she was only seven years old, she invented a series of behind-the-back squeeges that are now not only patented, but legendary in the world of professional jacks. It helps to have really long arms, but she’s also a generous teacher and will give away all her secrets is you find her in a gregarious mood.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 7
Big-boned Gals Collection
Number 4
Ina May Monkey was named after Ina May Gaskin, author and midwife at The Farm in Tennessee. Following in her namesake’s footsteps, the monkey Ina May taught the other monkey midwives at Sanity Creek how to support monkeys in pregnancy, labor and birth. She still catches monkey babies at Sanity Creek, and believes firmly in the importance of sphincter law. Her mantra, borrowed from the article by Skylar Browning, is “Let your monkey do it!”
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 6
Birth Collection
Number 1
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ADOPTED
Virgil is a storyteller and performance artist. In the 1980s, he created a piece, loosely based on the inner turmoil of a traveling salesman, during which he used duct tape to adhere cold cuts all over his body. (He doesn’t like to talk about it.) In recent years, he has evolved into a more low-tech storyteller.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 5
Les Artistes Collection
Number 1
Penelope loves her cousin, Princess Feist, though she has sworn never to call her by her alleged title, because of the dubious evidence of royalty. And yes, Penelope is a nudist, but no, she never takes off her pearls.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 4
Big-boned Gals Collection
Number 3
Milton stopped speaking five years ago, and is saving his pennies for a trip to Strasbourg, France: the home of his hero, Marcel Marceau. Milton co-founded the organization “Give Mimes A Chance” which works to decrease the general public’s distain for mimes.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 3
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Princess Feist doesn’t understand the merits of using an “inside voice.” Through ornate lineage research, she found out several years ago that she is, in fact, a princess. At the waning of the disco era, she almost became engaged to a sock monkey belonging to an heir of the Tiffany jewelry dynasty, but she remembered the Beatles singing “All you need is love” and since she didn’t feel it, she eschewed the proposal.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 2
Big-boned Gals Collection
Number 2
Ulli makes the best garlic pasta. The trick, she says, is to slice the garlic thinner than paper. She is also a master archer; her aim is legendary at Sanity Creek. But she doesn’t hunt. She loves modern dance, and her long limbs can emulate any abstract sculpture in the world. Honest and loyal, she loves to watch the shape of clouds.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 1
Big-boned Gals Collection
Number 1
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ADOPTED
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