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.~--/%*###    recruiting takes place in peoples     ###*%/--~.
.~-/%*#### yards, or outside stores,  or with a bit ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*####        of violence and trickery.         ####*%/-~.
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.~-/%*#### throw  the   fourleggers   into  a  van. ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*#### decode  them. sort  them by species  and ####*%/-~.
.~-%*#####                  taste.                  #####*%-~.
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.~-/%*#### decorate  the  dog,  decorate  the  dogs ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*#### mind,  upsize  the  paws, or  the  whole ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*####  creature, frame a burroughs portrait,   ####*%/-~.
....~/**## sing a tune about  being brought to your ##**/~....
.~-/%*#### roads  end and reborn as something else. ####*%/-~.
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.~-/%*#### you    can't    go    the    same   way, ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*####   unfortunately, though another path is  ####*%/-~.
....~-%### open. a grimier,  grainier, more painful ###%-~....
.~-/%*#### approach. hopefully bliss  is at the end ####*%/-~.
.~-/%*#### of  it,  but i  don't  know. might  just ####*%/-~.
.....-/**# ruin  you.   will  probably  ruin   you. #**/-.....
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