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##¶§$††~,, LETS HEAR IT FOR ,,~††$§¶##
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§††,,,,,,, WHAT CAN I DO YA FOR ,,,,,,,††§
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##¶§$††~,, , CHEESEBURGER , ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, , NUGGETS , ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, , DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER , ,,~††$§¶##
§††††~~,,, , FRIES , ,,,~~††††§
§††~~,,,,, , CARBONATED WATER , ,,,,,~~††§
§††,,,,,,, , BEARNAISE DIP SAUCE , ,,,,,,,††§
¶§$††~~,,, , BIG MAC , ,,,~~††$§¶
##¶§$††~,, , COFFEE , ,,~††$§¶##
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##¶§$††~,, IT ALL BEGAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO IN ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, LIKE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A DARK ,,~††$§¶##
###§$††~,, FIGURE EMERGED FROM A TAVERN AFTER A ,,~††$§###
§§§§$††~,, FEW YEARS APPRENTICESHIP, WITH AN IDEA. ,,~††$§§§§
###§$††~,, IT WAS ILLEGAL TO SELL FOOD IN THE ,,~††$§###
##¶§$††~,, REGION FOR EVERYBODY EXCEPT THAT TAVERN. ,,~††$§¶##
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##¶§$††~,, BUT MARIGOLD DIDN'T CARE. ,,~††$§¶##
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§§†††††~,, SHE BEGAN PUTTING DRIED LIZARD MEAT ,,~†††††§§
##¶§$††~,, BETWEEN TWO BREAD SLICES, OPERATING OUT ,,~††$§¶##
¶§††~~~,,, OF A CART, NOT STAYING IN THE SAME ,,,~~~††§¶
##¶§$††~,, PLACE LONG. IN THE DAY SHE SLEPT, IN ,,~††$§¶##
###§$††~,, THE EVE SHE SOLD HER WARES, AND IN THE ,,~††$§###
###¶$††~,, NIGHT SHE POACHED. ,,~††$¶###
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##¶§$††~,, AFTER A FEW YEARS, MARIGOLDS FOOD CART ,,~††$§¶##
#§$$$††~,, HAD A REPUTATION. SHE CALLED IT ,,~††$$$§#
#§†††~,,,, ,, THE GOLDEN M ,, ,,,,~†††§#
§§$††~,,,, AND PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT THE GOLDEN M. ,,,,~††$§§
##¶§$††~,, THE OLD TAVERN HAD THEIR MONOPOLY AND ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, DIDN'T CHANGE THEIR MENU MUCH. ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, MARIGOLDS SECRET LIZARD FOODCART WAS ,,~††$§¶##
###¶§††~,, NEW AND FRESH. ,,~††§¶###
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¶$$†,,,,,, HOWEVER, SHE BECAME A LITTLE TOO WELL ,,,,,,†$$¶
#§††,,,,,, KNOWN. THE TAVERNS MEN HOT ON HER ,,,,,,††§#
##¶§$††~,, TRAIL, SHE COULD STAY A SHORTER AND ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, SHORTER TIME IN EACH LOCATION. SHE FELT ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, HUNTED. AND SOON ENOUGH THERE CAME A ,,~††$§¶##
###¶$††~,, TIME WHEN THEY STARTED WATCHING FOR HER ,,~††$¶###
§$†††††~,, AT THE GATES OF EVERY VILLAGE. ,,~†††††$§
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##¶§$††~,, SO SHE HID THE CART, AND DISAPPEARED, ,,~††$§¶##
¶$†††††~,, FOREVER. ,,~†††††$¶
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##¶§$††~,, AFTER THIRTY YEARS, A MAN NAMED ,,~††$§¶##
§†††,,,,,, NICHOLAS FOUND THE CART. HE WAS A ,,,,,,†††§
¶§$†††,,,, CURSED ENTREPRENEUR (THEY ALL ARE ,,,,†††$§¶
#¶§§$††~,, (CURSED, I MEAN)) AND AS SUCH HE OF ,,~††$§§¶#
¶¶$†~~~,,, COURSE THOUGHT IT A GOOD IDEA TO FOLLOW ,,,~~~†$¶¶
§††††~,,,, IN MARIGOLDS FOODSTEPS. ,,,,~††††§
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¶§§†~,,,,, HE WASN'T ALL THAT OF A COOK, AND EVEN ,,,,,~†§§¶
##¶§$††~,, THOUGH SOME RECOGNIZED THE GOLDEN M, HE ,,~††$§¶##
¶¶§§$††~,, QUICKLY FELL INTO INFAMITY. HOWEVER HE ,,~††$§§¶¶
##¶§$††~,, WAS KIND OF A HARDHAT AND DIDN'T STOP ,,~††$§¶##
¶¶$†~,,,,, TRYING. THE TAVERN DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM ,,,,,~†$¶¶
¶$†~,,,,,, SINCE NOBODY BOUGHT HIS FOOD ANYWAY ,,,,,,~†$¶
###¶§$††,, (AND ALSO THEY HAD EXPANDED TOO ,,††$§¶###
###¶§$†~,, QUICKLY, SUCCUMBED TO CORRUPTION, AND ,,~†$§¶###
§††~~,,,,, WAS IN THE PROCESS OF FALLING APART). ,,,,,~~††§
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#§†~,,,,,, ANGRY AT EVERYONE FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING ,,,,,,~†§#
¶§†††~,,,, HIS FOOD, HE VOWED TO LEAVE ,,,,~†††§¶
###§$††~,, KIRUGU VARGIR ENTIERLY. ,,~††$§###
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##¶§$††~,, WHICH HE DID. ,,~††$§¶##
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##¶§$††~,, WE DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HOW HE TRAVELED ,,~††$§¶##
§§†††,,,,, OR WHERE, BUT EVENTUALLY HE ENDED UP ON ,,,,,†††§§
###¶§††~,, EARTH IN THE FIFTIES. ,,~††§¶###
¶¶¶§$††~,, UPON FINDING OUT THAT EARTH HOLDS NO ,,~††$§¶¶¶
##¶§$††~,, EDIBLE LIZARDS, HE SETTLED FOR COW MEAT ,,~††$§¶##
§§§$†,,,,, INSTEAD, AND TO HIS JOY, THE EARTH FOLK ,,,,,†$§§§
#§$††††~,, LIKED IT! ,,~††††$§#
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§§$$†~~,,, THEN HE GOT SCAMMED OUT OF THE CART BY ,,,~~†$$§§
¶¶¶§$††~,, A MAN NAMED MICKEY MAC DONALDS, WHO ,,~††$§¶¶¶
§$$††~,,,, RENAMED THE BUSINESS AFTER HIMSELF. ,,,,~††$$§
##¶§$††~,, WHILE NICHOLAS QUICKLY PERISHED, MICKEY ,,~††$§¶##
§$†,,,,,,, FUNNELED HIS INHERITED BILLIONS INTO ,,,,,,,†$§
##¶§$††~,, THE PROJECT, AND QUICKLY EXPANDED ALL ,,~††$§¶##
##¶§$††~,, OVER THE PLANET. ,,~††$§¶##
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