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Well, this is a story site... and we might as well play games with them too- right?
Ok, this is how it works: you are only allowed to post three words (not including punctuation, do as much or as little of that as is grammatically allowed). These three words can be as funny or silly or serious or whatever you feel like as you want.
Only three, no more, no less. We'll be telling a story together, and it will probably go to really weird places, but that's the fun of it.

Oh, and for the fun of it, you can only post after another person for this game, no multiple-posts-in-a-row spamming, for the fun of it.

I'll start us off smile

Once upon a
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Only three, no more, no less. We'll be telling a story together, and it will probably go to really weird places, but that's the fun of it.



Once upon a


... clear dark night
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Once upon a


... clear dark night


an elderly man
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freshly caught shrimp
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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peculiar, yet satisfyingly
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever. I heard this from Steve Sabol about his father.
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white china bowl.
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind
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There were sounds outside his window as the wind

turbine that spins
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came crashing down
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and

flapping came through
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
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And with that
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And with that

become clear that
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.

And with that become clear that the old man's
If you can read this I'll enjoy your company.
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.

And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place
If you can read this I'll enjoy your company.
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.

And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place, not like before.
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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.

There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.

And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place, not like before.

He chose to
One day at a time is enough. Don't look back and grieve the past, it's gone... don't be troubled about the future it has yet to come... live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
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he already knew
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the reason it