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Demeter

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1. After two days of lack-luster performance

Thu May 3, 2012, 07:16 PM

May 2012

the fairies didn't even show up on Wednesday. They must be on strike for higher wages. Or they went to the beach, in honor of the weather.

Or too many people said, "I don't believe in fairies", and so they all fell down dead.

That was tonight's bedtime story. News at 11.

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