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Do not stand there and try to act superior when we all know you frequently eat fish sticks for dinner.

Thursday

Weeks later the potion had still not worn off. The princess wondered if the gypsy charlatan had been more charlatan than gypsy. If this was so, it meant what had been felt had been real all along. This brought confusion to the princess, because this was never the way in these stories. The princess planned to proceed with caution, knowing what she did about happy endings and granted wishes.

Wednesday

Two days of
learning the normal
language had changed him.

He read two poems
but fell asleep before
he could parse what he was
meant to feel.

He went to sleep but
died before he could wake.

There was no discernible pattern.


kmc