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think how unhappy even a rotten apple might be if it too loved apples and if the all powerful gardener, the orchard master should plant some seeds from aforesaid rotten apple and instead of a big apple tree with nice big juicy apples a thorn bush should grow instead. There are lots of thorn bushes too many perhaps and apples are worth something when not too wormy or rotten. The only tough thing about it is that even a rotten apple may have a soul and loves and ambitions. But the orchard keeper just cant be bothered with rotten apples and the rest of the apples keep crowding the rotten one but at last they crowd so hard that the rotten apple gives a half hearted [faded text] (little?) jump and the rest

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