#obviously i'd scope her out first... 'hey you are 5 now... how do you feel about okapi? no? cool. back into the padded cell you go'

[etirabys]

I was totally numb to The Wonders when I was a child; the zoo, old buildings in foreign countries with different architecture, eclipses, museums, dolphins in the water, this weird dangerous swing, all were or would have been wasted on me. I just wanted to be in my room reading, which instantly let me conjure much more interesting wonders in my mind. My parents would point stuff out to me that excited them, and it felt like a huge chore to play along. It was only in my twenties, as my fantasy life faded and shriveled, that these tiny deviations or novelties seemed worth paying attention to.

(Possibly the sole exception is the stars on a clear night sky.)

I won't, uh, deliberately hide the zoo from my kids, since my kids will be sufficiently reshuffled from me that I can't count on this tendency, but I would seriously consider it if I were raising a clone.