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“Do you remember what you wished for?” asked Stan.
“Only the one of them. I must have been ten or eleven.”
“Did it come true?” asked Groot.
“Hell no, I wished I’d never get old,” said Venner.

— Jeffrey Ford Crackpot Palace (2012)

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