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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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