A Girl's Best Friend Is Her Mandrake Dobby Rug

When I was a young girl, my mother would take me to the market to buy groceries. We would always walk by the vendor selling mandrakes. At first, I thought they were just ugly vegetables, but my mother told me that they were special. She said that if you dug them up carefully, you could see they had special human-like features and mystery powers.

I was fascinated by this idea and begged my mother to buy one for me. She always refused, saying that it wasn't safe. But one day, when she wasn't looking, I stole a mandrake from the vendor's stand.

To my amazement, it had a human-like face with eyes and a mouth. I was so excited that I had found one of these creatures that I forgot all about being scared of them.

I named him Mandrake and he became my best friend. We would play together in the garden every day until one day, when Mandrake disappeared. I never saw him again, but I know he'll always be in my heart.