Nell's Story: The King Tut Glitter Pyramid

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Nell, my roommate has a king tut glitter pyramid on her desk and when anyone sees it, they can't resist picking it up and shaking it.
It is modeled along the lines to those plastic snow globes that you see in stores around Christmas
The different is that they put a golden replica of Tutankhamen, the boy king, inside a plastic pyramid.
It is filled with glittery flakes and like golden sand it spreads out to the four corners of the pyramid
Nell turns the pyramid upside down and lets all of the glitter collect at the top of the pyramid upside down and lets all of the glitter onto the boy king’s head.
When the pyramid is shaken, a flask of gold rise and swirl, and it hides Tut’s face.
Nell says her little pyramid is practical as well as entertaining

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