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Failing You
I was referred to you by a hot air balloonist
at an altitude of several thousand feet.

This has never been written down.

The high bidder has won the census
for the
second
consecutive
year.

Nurse Atticus
will be
in Chicago
(pending approval from the show's producers).

Limpiador Antimicrobio
De Piel

...while the other woman,
whose husband was a NASA psychiatrist,
wears tight
polyester skirts
with matching jackets
and caps.

(She is Amanda Bellows.)

Limpiador Antimicrobio De Piel.

Failing you,

I gave her a ten-carat boxing ring
for the
second
consecutive year

Failing you

at an altitude
of several thousand feet.