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The glittery ball in Times Square started

  • The glittery ball in Times Square started to descend and everyone around seemed joyous as the countdown began

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  • ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

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  • I fell off the cliff into the churning sea with jagged rocks awaiting me at the bottom

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  • and it gave me only seconds to react. My necklace throbbed against my chest, trying to save itself from the idiot it had chosen. I touched it and pain shot through my back, wings

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  • sprouted up like trees. I began to fly off into the night heading towards

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  • Vegas. I had a room voucher for the MGM and my tax refund. In my pocket I had

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  • Bette Midler's personal cell phone number. With trembling fingers I dialed. The phone rang. And rang. Finally I heard the receiver lifted.

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  • That bastard Barry Manilow picked up the phone. While he played gay bath houses for the Divine Miss M in the 70s, how had he taken her cell phone? Then I figured it out.

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  • Bette Midler & Barry Manilow were one & the same hideous creature, 50s she-male Boris Midman. The 2 BM's were the result of early Soviet experiments in splitting the hermaphrodite.

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2 Comments

  1. RhettOracle Jan 06 2011 @ 16:39

    Euphorium, perfect follow up and ending!

  2. Euphorium Jan 06 2011 @ 19:20

    Thanks dwe! Talk about a sweet set-up.

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