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My name is Tabasa

　Pleased to meet you. My name is Tabasa.
　Whenever I say my name, older people always ask. "Are you Samantha's daughter?" I answer, "Yes," because that's what I'm supposed to do.

　But I am not "Tabitha" from the drama "The Wife is a Witch. The "th" sound is not well-liked here in Japan, and I'm sure Japanese people would not like to hear Tabitha. And I am sure Japanese people read Tabitha as "TABISA".

　I am not Tabitha. My mother brought me to Japan and named me Tabasa. Isn't that a nice name?
By the way, my mom's name is not Samantha either. It's Samansa.
My spell checker "warns" me with a red wavy line, but they are not dangerous names.

Mom doesn't have to be a witch.

　Between you and me, however, my mom can do magic. And she says I've had magic since I was a baby. And a lot of magic at that.
　It's a secret that we both have that kind of power. It's a secret to those who ask me, "You are Samantha's daughter, right?" I think people who ask me, can guess what's going on.

　My father and mother married each other because they love each other, and my mother wants to hear my father's wish that his wife doesn't use magic as much as possible. Or rather, if she doesn't pretend to listen, all kinds of disturbances will occur. Isn't that how the drama "The Wife is a Witch" was written? My family is the same way.

　A long time before I was born, there was a popular TV drama in Japan, wasn't there?　In the drama, it was set in America, in a house with a huge refrigerator, and the witch Samantha used magic by twitching the tip of her nose. That's what I heard.
　I can't believe it. I'm a dog, as you can see, so my nose twitches all the time. But nothing magical happens.
　If magic happens every time I move my nose, this house will be full of magic.

　Oh, that's right. I have to tell you something. My mom is not a dog. She's a human being. Samansa's husband, Darling, is also human. The couple pretends to be my owner.

　She said that here she doesn't have to use magic. That's why she is living in Japan. Because it's peaceful. She says it's wisest to keep a low profile in Japan. I was always taught that the "tokusaku" of magic is to pretend that you can't use it.
　So we only use real magic to pretend that we are not witches.

Our real name must never be known.
　What? You just thought I was lying. You thought, "If we're going to pretend we're not witches, we don't have to be witches. Mmm-hmm. That's what I'm trying to do.
　Oh, my mom wants me. She's looking for me. I think it's almost time for a walk.

　She's always whispering to me while we're walking. She says, "You shouldn't talk. She's the one who talks to me. She said, "If you talk, they will know you are a witch. Then she says, "Never let people know your real name.

　If other people know our real names, we witches have to use our magic for them. We get controlled. As for the dog, it's like having a different owner.

　Oh yes. That's also a secret, so I wasn't allowed to tell people!
When you are in dog form, you forget a lot of things. Can you pretend you didn't hear that?

　I know, I know. I hide my real name. And this country is just right for me to keep it hidden. Because Thabisa, Thabasa, and Tabasa are all pronounced "TABASA" in the same way. Who cares which one is which? Right?
　You don't even know that there used to be a porn star named Thabasa, do you? She was Thabasa, not Thabisa.

　Some people refer to the brand "Samantha Thavasa." Do you know it? That's written Smantha Thavasa. That's Thavasa.
　I will let you guess. Which is my name?

　Oh, I've talked too much. Mom says I was sealed up as a baby because I was too powerful a witch. She said I was too dangerous to be normal.
　How do they seal me? Do you think I'm taking the form of a dog to sealed   up? I don't know. Maybe I'm just changing them into human form.

　Oh, yeah. My dad's called "darling". But it is not a darling, it's a person named Darrin Stephens. That's what Wikipedia says. But he's just a regular guy, so it doesn't really matter what his name is.

　
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Japanese illustrator. Extremely private writer. Bathroom singer. Known as the "Know-It-All Hoi Hoi". Dreams of living off of royalties and handouts. See her works and more at https://syndionda.jimdo.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/syndionda/
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