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( Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat )
( stone forever )
( skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically )
( but oblivious )
( to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, )
( and due to an )
( overdose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer )
( from chronic )
( apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her )
( life as useless )
( as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell )
( in a )
( steroid-free fitness center. )
( -- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad )
( fiction contest. )
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