Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
("Water for Elephants")
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All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghost of my past rattle around my vacuous present. They crash and bang and make themselves at home, mostly because there's no competition. I've stopped fighting them. They're crashing and banging around in there now. Make yourselves at home, boys. Stay awhile. Oh, sorry- I see you already have. Damn ghost.
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We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.
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