Eulogy Of Mango

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Once their was a mango tree and sat eight eggs. And beside one was a mango and suddenly they all hatched but one couldn’t quite break the egg shell. So he pushed and went through the shell and into mango that fell into my pocket and we came home and that night when I was in bed I got up and checked my pocket in my jacket to get my pokemon cards out and their was a mango with a hole in it, so I took that and put it on my dresser. And my pokemon cards where soked with mango juice on them and blue gecko so I let him go into my hamster cage that had died and put fake grass in and he was named Mango after living in a mango for all of 30 minute drive home from the mango farm and he can talk, he wheres shades, he gos skating with me, swims, smells

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