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"And that is why I will never wear top hats

  • "And that is why I will never wear top hats ever again." Aaron turned to me. "So, how about you, George?" he said. "Do you have any irrational fears of harmless objects?"
  • "Not really," replied George nonchalantly. "The only thing to fear is fear itself." But Aaron knew better. He thought George was terrified of women. So to prove his theory, Aaron
  • crammed fifteen women in George's bedroom closet and waited for the screaming to begin. Nothing came of it, though - well, except for the prison sentence for kidnapping and
  • a lovely wrist band made by a crazed fan. George's attack on the fifteen women had lead him to become infamous in the prison pen pal scheme. Thousands of love letters would arrive
  • but he couldn't read. That was the ingenious part. He held himself out as a prison pen pal but George the warden couldn't read. But he could write. He relied on a prisoner named
  • Eli. Eli was blind as a bat - but he could read. Using radar. And braille. Not that Eli had hands either. He used his feet. Eli's story was an interesting one. He had committed a m
  • -m-m... It wasn't something he wanted to talk about.
  • He began to search for words to express his fear and trepidation. There were not many she would understand. They had too many syllables and too many consonants to pronounce well.
  • Besides, English, German & Polish were out of the question. Haitian for fear was pè but trepidation was ajitasyon. He opted for maori "wehi me te feaa." She looked at him intensely
  • , almost as if she understood and was debating whether to respond. "NuqneH," she finally replied. Klingon?

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