“You know, lobsters just get bigger and bigger without aging and, if there were no other threats to them, they’d live forever. Sea sponges too, Mama.” I call her what I used to when I was a child. “They stay beautiful and bright and they live for thousands of years. That’s us.”

“You know, lobsters just get bigger and bigger without aging and, if there were no other threats to them, they’d live forever. Sea sponges too, Mama.” I call her what I used to when I was a child. “They stay beautiful and bright and they live for thousands of years. That’s us.”

— Claire Kohda