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Caterwauling Disrupted Peace of Mind and Jeopardized Mine Body Electric

A couple nights ago (today being August 4th, 2021) while walking around the parking lot after dark over yonder shrieking catcall heard - hark at first methought, a baby experienced distress, I immediately scratched that notion far fetched as sound out the beak of bewailing lark but Highland Manor apartments generally quiet as cemetery park. Truth be told yours truly an overgrown fraidy cat who naturally sought to turn sharp on his heels and beat path for domicile entrance within seconds flat. Hypothesization generated imagination to conjure fate worse than death predicated after huffing and puffing (pertaining to above mentioned activity) gasping for my last breath praying to dog to escape versus being figurative cooked goose cowardliness quickly dismissed lame excuse to avoid become laughingstock with addled pate stuck within noose. Maybe ferocious feral rabid animal on the loose oh if only seen courtesy Doctor Seuss what with me with hair raised straight up and/or the wild beast charging faster than lightning greased impossible mission to call a truce where creature waggled her/his tail analogous to derailed caboose prompting joker within me to splutter what the deuce, not wanting to discover vis a vis common denominator most least cuz mortal kombat witnessed bloody bloke pronouncing one lapsed (Aloe there) spidery legged wandering Jew deceased. Forsooth aforementioned scenario fabrication of truth insipid since contents (reasonably rhyming materiel) devoid remotely labeled uncouth fiction employed to entice reading poem tastefully accomplished akin to wine knowingly spiked with brandy infused with herbs and spices such sweetened drink constitutes one of two varieties regarding never drinking teetotaler vermouth; red (sweet), which originally hails from Italy, and white (dry) which first appeared in France.

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