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From Beyond.

When Bradley retold the story later in the hospital, the bride (his sister Joyce) emphatically said that she had not invited twin girls to the wedding.

“I don’t even know twin girls,” she said, confused, and chalking it up to the terror he’d experienced after falling into the river next to the outdoors nuptials. (Secretly she was furious that her big brother’s clumsy accident had upstaged her big day, but at least the cake had been saved.)

“Twin girls, you say?” said the victim’s rescuer, Old Man Withers, who was sitting in the corner, wishing hospitals still allowed pipe smoking. “There was twin girls – the Swindon sisters, who drowned ‘aught 60 years ago to this day – I believe it was during the Sunday school Decoration Day pick-a-nick. Yes, that’s right. I was a spritely lad of twenty-five, sweet on their sister Adelaide. Some say they come back once a year to tempt another victim to the grave with them. To play. You’re a lucky man, Bradley. A lucky man indeed.

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Hooked And On 40 A Day.

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Kindergarten Scarface.

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day. Maybe in my entire life.

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Wedded Bliss.

Her father was so anxious to marry off Lizzie, that he had her dowry together by age six, and wedded to Archibald “Scooter” Maguire, heir of the Maguire Lumber Company, by age eight. You might say that Mr. Walton was an extremely efficient businessman, but by the time they had figured out how to consummate the marriage, they’d been married four years already, making the contract null and void.

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THE KIDS ARE COOKING!

And in a smooth move usually reserved for men three times Wally’s age (and usually without visuals), he explained to his cousin Wendy how the facts of life worked.

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Bee Mine.

Priscilla and little Madison entered themselves in the Rocky Hills Mall Moms N’ Girls pageant, and won third place that year (to a standing ovation) for their punny homemade puff-paint shirts. The other two contestants clapped with forced pride.