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I shook the applesauce in the plastic jar

I screwed my courage to the sticking place, and with the desperation of all my strength, tried again. I gritted my teeth, became a tyrant, refused to succumb, and the seal and turned!

What an interesting life life is, when you stop to notice and think about it.

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The Genie and the Bottle

If wishes were horses… My daughter told me her latest joke that goes like this:

The bottle-finder un-corker was scratching mosquito bites. The first wish was, “I wish all blood-suckers were gone from the world.”

Suddenly all mosquitos and fleas vanished, all the Royals and half of Washington DC disappeared.

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