Everyone says possums might look kind of ratty and diseased, but they're actually clean, diligent, and friendly creatures, once you get to know them. Case in point, this possum girl I met walking home the other night. I offered her some trash I had, a chocolate bar wrapper, and she licked off the remaining chocolate and gave me a shy smile. Then we banged in the alley behind my apartment. Sweet girl. I didn't get her number, since she's a possum and doesn't really have a number, but she told me to listen for her screaming at the top of her lungs outside my apartment some night. I told her I'd keep an ear out.