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But: It didn’t dissolve.

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So… we held on to the octopus until we reached the salt-water ocean.

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But…The octopus was very slippery and mad at us.

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So…We assured him we’d pay cash for the ride.

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But…the octopus pointed out that, because of the pandemic, he couldn’t handle cash.

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So…we used Paypal.

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But…The octopus cursed us.

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So we flipped him the bird and took off running

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But, He chased us.

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So we had to run real fast, since we had only two legs, as opposed to his eight.

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But…He slipped and sprained 2 of his tentacles.

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So by that point we were well inland and, to our relief, he hobbled back into the river and we never saw him again.

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But…We were hungry.

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So we went in search of corndogs.

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But…Calamari was all we could find.

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So…we rolled up the calamari and pretended they were corndogs.

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But…we were out of mustard.

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So…we ate them anyway, reminding ourselves that they’re calamari, not corndogs.

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But then one of us got a splinter in their gums from a stick used in creating the ersatz ‘corndogs’

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So we went looking for a dentist to help one of us (whose nickname, since I’m sure you’re wondering, was Blawnox Bob).