Daquan Somerled: A Short Story

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"""Iee lik chesepuvs iin ma aplejuuce"

Daquan Somerled was not a very wise man, but he was an achiever. He did not die a hero's death, but he was an achiever. He basically wasn't a awesome dude, he ate breakfast everyday and went to work where he was bored out of his mind, and then he went to sleep and restarted the next day. I now realize that this may not be the best writing prompt that I could have used so I will now try to salvage what I can from this hole that I have dug myself into so lets that adding things in to make him more interesting.

He lives is a house, black and in the suburbs in some U.S. state, I don't know which U.S. state has a bunch of suburbs that I can put him in but it doesn't matter any way. His house is a
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The last visitors got an earful of his philosophical teachings.

"Why does you're house smell?" One of them asked.

"It's just my socks." Daquan answered

"Why on Earth do your socks smell that bad!"

"What if the world ends today? What if I die today? I refuse to live the last day of my life cleaning socks, do you want to die cleaning socks?"

"Well umm-"

"No you don't! That's why I always wear the same pair of socks and never wash them!" Daquan shouted.

The woman proceeded to storm out of the house, disgusted by the man's lack of hygiene, "And remember 'Descriptive bounties shame buffalos 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752!'" He yelled as he slammed the door in a fitful

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