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9. Again, Doyle had slipped through the fingers of death, almost by magic, just as the number 8. had in the prior verse. Remember to number your verses!, he could hear Gampy Bobby screaming out in frustration.

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10. Alas, Doyle found complex punctuations to be childish and incorrect. Someone isn't writing according to Hoyle, thought Doyle, and then laughed at his mental rhyme.

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11. Ben answered, "Doyle, is it really you? You're alive?"

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12. "Enjoying another little square of chocolate are we, there, Ben, eh?"

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Originally posted by coquette
12. "Enjoying another little square of chocolate are we, there, Ben, eh?"
13. Ben laughed the laugh of a person knowing that he was indeed talking to a walking deadman. "Chocolate...yes that's it Doyle chocolate" he said, trying desperately not to reveal his true emotions. He failed miserably as Sheila pointed out after he'd hung up the phone. "My god Ben could you not have tried just a bit harder to be at least a smidgen more controlled?" "What do you mean?" he said with very little authority. "I thought I'd chosen the right man but after a performance like that I see that I hadn't". " Oh how I wish I'd turned the gun on you instead of Doyle".

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
13. Ben laughed the laugh of a person knowing that he was indeed talking to a walking deadman. "Chocolate...yes that's it Doyle chocolate" he said, trying desperately not to reveal his true emotions. He failed miserably as Sheila pointed out after he'd hung up the phone. "My god Ben could you not have tried just a bit harder to be at least a smidgen ...[text shortened]... see that I hadn't". " Oh how I wish I'd turned the gun on you instead of Doyle".
14. Shocked! Absolutely SHOCKED! Turned the gun on me? How could you say such a thing! And after all we've been through. He hung his head in sorrow. Alas, there was no purpose, no meaning. He realized that it would end up as one lame excuse after another. Nothing left. The box of chocolates was, in a sense, empty.

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Originally posted by coquette
14. Shocked! Absolutely SHOCKED! Turned the gun on me? How could you say such a thing! And after all we've been through. He hung his head in sorrow. Alas, there was no purpose, no meaning. He realized that it would end up as one lame excuse after another. Nothing left. The box of chocolates was, in a sense, empty.
15. He'd make sure of that as he "scarfed down" the last of the chocolates. As he did so he noticed a twitch from Sheila's left hand and he knew what was coming so he lunged to the right just in time to see the flash as her Saturday night special exploded. His timing was perfect as the slug embedded into the sofa they'd just, 15 minutes earlier, made passionate love on. His mouth curled into a sneer as he took the whatsit (star shaped thingy Ninjah people use as a wepon) out of his pocket and hurled it into her neck. It caught the jugular vien and well as they say the rest is history. He removed the weapon from her blood soaked neck and was walking out when..........

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16. The Director yelled "CUT!" That was awful, he said, as Angelina, playing the role of Sheila, pulled the ninja "star" from the fake injury on her neck. Ben "Brad" scowled at Ron Howard, "What was wrong with that? Not realistic enough, or too realistic? Aren't you ever satisfied?"

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17. "Look," said Ron in frustration, "we have to make this look real. No one is going to believe this unless you to find some way to make this believable." Angelina just sighed and said, "We can do it again, but I have no idea what you are looking for. I feel that I already AM Sheila, she is so much like me!"

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18. Jessica Alba, hearing of the tiff on the set immediately called her lawyer to sue, since Sheila looked EXACTLY like her!

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Originally posted by coquette
18. Jessica Alba, hearing of the tiff on the set immediately called her lawyer to sue, since Sheila looked EXACTLY like her!
19. 'EXACTLY like her'... inner and outer beauty personified, almost as if by some measure of caprice or grace serendipitously twins.

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20. Ron thought about what was needed and came to the conclusion that the scene would have to do for today. The light was fading over the Limpopo as were the stars. The little boy who had fallen in, back in the first book had grown an inch and matured considerably, his eyes fixed on the beautiful heroine.

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Originally posted by coquette
20. Ron thought about what was needed and came to the conclusion that the scene would have to do for today. The light was fading over the Limpopo as were the stars. The little boy who had fallen in, back in the first book had grown an inch and matured considerably, his eyes fixed on the beautiful heroine.
(21. Parenthetical flashback...


‘Omega Millennium’, Chapter One, March, 2008

Setting: “Growing up on the happy banks of the River Limpopo.” -Coquette



18. Meanwhile, in Slovenia, a small boy was growing up. –Handy Andy

19. " how wonderful it is to be growing up in slovenia " ,he thought , " it's probably comparable to growing up in the west bank of the limpopo " –Cairn

25. Seemed such a strange sight indeed, as I think back on it... the village prodigy of a gentle boy and the large self appointed agent, whose least movement Vladimir’s shaggy dog viewed suspiciously from the protective vantage point of his master's side. -gb

26. Then, without the slightest provocation, Vlad's dog, “Garlic", lunged, at nothing in particular, catapolting Vlad like a rocket towards the Limpopo. Vlad had a look of terror on his face, knowing that he couldn't swim. Great Big Stees,

30. All of these still vivid memories I found myself reminiscing on during that longer than usual/hotter than usual shower the stormy evening of the major new server related RHP outage. -gb)



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