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When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus

When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus Mental health of yours truly heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac) aside from countless (approximately seven) other prescription medications kept stashed in a plastic tray until one or more taken at least once or at most three times daily. The wife flush with grand ideas to gleefully, playfully, and zestfully pester me dreamt up a new fangled game, whereat she moves fast as greased lightning thunderously laughing her dexterous hands airing maneuvering feints, either replacing and/or removing drug containers; (some with caps prone to pop off with relative ease versus others with child protective covers even though our progeny - deux darling daughters - long since emotionally, financially and spiritually fending for themselves). Though childlike said antics exhibited courtesy the wife analogous magician eliciting "poof" prestidigitation her wrist flicks her reputation to wield sinister magical powers rife as a graduate of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she ranked as an outsize force with legacy legerdemain legion instantaneously kickstarting irreversible incantation finding me transformed into a nasty, short and brutish oaf with little spindleshanks - think toothpicks for legs - reigned on from tempest in a teapot while seeking cover under lee side tulip tree leaf comfortably numb nestled within kloof. All around me symphonic quiescent overture – heard maestro Kant imitate tryouts starring musical prodigies and/or an attendant conductor attempt to approach ambient chorus divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork heavenly invoking kapellmeister magnificent nonchalant outlook piquantly, quintessentially, repertoire sensately striking unmatched vast wisdom yielding zephyr air albeit creativity engineered from groundswell harmony juxtaposed, kindled, linkedin, manifesting noteworthy opulent philharmonic recording transcribing universal veritable webbed wide world. Wunderkinds yield Ziggurat acme approximated asymptote bequeathing celestial Doppelganger Earthly emulations formulating fractal glinting highlighting ineffable joie de vivre jostling, keen kindling, la la land legerdemain lifting logic lording Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein. ? Yelping zoological apostle Al affidavit Gore handily heaping hubristically invocation jolting kickstart measures nipping nixed noblesse oblige opera quickening quotidian rapid ruination sans supreme teetering upended venerated wise with acumen arithmetical Benoit Mandelbrot chasing far-fetched ideas lightyears menacing nihilism purging ogres opportunistically resplendently ripping revered tankard tipping unstoppably vanquishing varietal whipsawing wonderful wrapt yawning youngsters warfare written wrought yanking zestfully crushing environmental family granting Herculean instant karma malevolent, opprobrious pronouncement quiet riot silencing severely tragic ubiquitous vicious wreckage yik yaks apemen cleft Earth. Future foragers denounce capitalistic bamboozlers aggression zealots wrought trashing quintessential naked kingdoms issue flotsam coagulates zonal wastelands torquing quality NON killing habitats Earth bleached yellowed voodoo ruins.

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