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Show Almost Magnificence 112 So here was this almost magnificent lady walking around town, saying, "Ma Ma" and "Da Da" and leaking. People f e l t sorry for her for a while. After a l l , she had been beautiful, and her mother had always dressed her in lace and Mary Janes. But when she started to wear banana peel skirts, fresh cherry earrings and halved apricot pasties and started to say "Whoo-ee," people shook their heads and wondered. She thought about taking a job at the new health food restaurant in town because her o u t f i t would be appropriate for the lunch trade. But, a hungry customer, not able to wait for his f r u i t salad with herbal dressing, might snitch one of her half apricots. With this in mind, she relapsed into her "Ma Ma" and "Da Da" routine and bolted the door. Alone with her three cats, who liked her sawdust mixed in with their k i t t y l i t t e r , she dwindled down to a few powdery body parts which her pets mistook for catnip. |