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Brilliant, Grandiloquent, Magnificent, Trenchant

Brilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant... albeit modest word zealot Writing prompts burst asunder snap, crackle, and sweet Mary poppin within me scrambled noggin witnessing yours truly to blunder blindly along this dark and stormy night deafening soundcloud roared with apocalyptic thunder 'course only audible to yours truly, I did dumbfoundedly bred wonder... At some o'clock tick tocking hours brisk (quite chilly temperatures) April seventeenth -Easter Sunday two thousand twenty two when Church law obliges Roman Catholics to receive Holy Communion simultaneous blinding fiery kindling quickening xing risk within winkin blinkin and nod, I feared full light of day brainstorm snatched away courtesy invisible whisk broom all those potential ideas sprung while Messiah by George Frideric Handel's never out of style within cerebral nooks and crannies (think Ohiopyle), whereby Youghiogheny River bubbles, gurgles, fuels river mile after mile harnesses and doth generate approximately twelve Megawatts of electricity per hour, to alleviate domestic counting eight thousand homes necessitate distributed across western and central Pennsylvania nearly pristine land where many local legends never go out of style. Bigfoot looms large here, but other cryptids, or animals also believed to inhabit the state. Featured prominently include: the gigantic Broad Top Snake, the bizarre Dogman of Westmoreland County, and Bessie, Lake Erie’s resident monster. Reports of giant attacking thunderbirds, bloodsucking wolfmen, and mischievous, mine-dwelling Tommyknockers round out the list. Analogous catching courtesy goo goo dolls barenaked ladies hands spawning salmon slippery as an eel (if curious don't take my word, which might not appeal) though yours truly offers no guarantee, you could easily fall overboard as ye kneel, which subsequently offers live human meal to hungry sharks, impossible mission to escape no matter how loud you squeal, bouquets delphiniums and daisies designate watery grave site dissolving blood amidst the color teal. Aforementioned depiction, whereby former commander in chief (er scoundrel forty fifth president) admittedly no gent till man nor scholar, and he cavalierly lent and nearly fin hushed nearly (possibly already) rent asunder high crimes and misdemeanors, he casually spent.

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