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Magic Gucci Abraham had been with his new owner for two years now, and they were very happy with each other. The boy’s name was Jefferson, and he lived on a farm in Iowa with his family and now his dog Abe. Although he lived on a farm, Jefferson was not particularly fond of hard labor. Jefferson was an intellectual, and he prefered to spend his time solving puzzles and creating anagrams. Abe appreciated his owner’s brightness, but Jefferson’s parents wanted their son to help on the family farm and eventually inherit it. However, after spending all his free time on word puzzles, he had developed severe myopia. Abe wished he could help his owner, but alas, as he was a dog, there was nothing he could do.
One day, while Abe was out searching for mice in the marijuana field, (after all, marijuana is the fourth highest cash crop in Iowa), he suddenly found himself falling into a tunnel! When Abe hit the ground, he looked up to see a genie in front of him!
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Abe did not respond, as he was a dog.
“I can grant you one wish, and one wish only. What may that be, my canine friend?” asked the genie.
Abe did not respond again, but he thought about his wish of wanting to cure his owner’s myopia.
When Abe woke up, he was back in the marijuana field. Confused from his lucid hallucinations, he ran back to his owner, barking “Jeff! Jeff!”
Wait, how could Abe talk?
When he got back to the house, Abe immediately ran upstairs to find Jefferson attemptong to study a book on paradoxes, but he was obviously having trouble based on the proximity the book was held to his eyes.
“Jeff! I can talk!” The dog

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