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You wouldn’t believe me,

sitting where I’m sitting now seeing

what I see from the top of Stormer’s Cove --

Merrymouseland’s second most popular attraction

adapted from an antiquated cartoon featuring a rum-

drunken pirate with conspicuously human cargo and

a monochromatic, chattering Toucan named Rococo,

but it’s true: Once upon a time, this sprawling,

tetanus-filled wonderland was paradise.

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Welcome to the merriest little place on Earth! ™

greeters would sing with forced grins at the gates,

to which happy plastic families would flock dropping half

a year’s salary to soak up state-of-the-art attractions.

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For adults, it was a place to voila the world simple again—as though it ever was.

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For kids, it was a place to be themselves, back when this was still legal.

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...before the War of Seven Lambs took that from us

and so much more.

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Welcome to the merriest little place on Earth! ™

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- Said the last greeter left.

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(Forced grin.)

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