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the

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wake up and snail the roses

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once upon a time there was a hungry

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little snail named norman

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shell was pinkish greenish his

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and ten i wear long and proud

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and his belly was roly poly

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and seem to always be shouting at him

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me more more more flowers

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the results norman was only

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small when he looked at him from a human

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perspective that's far as

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other snails wins norm and was

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the biggest on the block just

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an absolute unit and he

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didn't show signs of slowing down

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anytime soon every

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guy's he ate and ate and

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aids and his body grew and

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grew and grew up he

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didn't care who got in his way as

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you might have kept on growing until he

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was big enough to leave flowers behind

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and start eating trees then

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he had a run in with a rose

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and everything changed

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rose was part of a garden and

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her name was barb he

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was probably the least popular rose

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in the whole place there wasn't any

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fault of hers bobby other

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roses all had perfect read

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pedals that seem to glow and shine

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he was a little too pale a

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little too crooked a little too

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thorny just a little too drew

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be around the edges that

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he was perfectly healthy and happy

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at least when the others weren't making fun of

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her granted nearby

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where to other roses named blush

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and bashful they were

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absolutely flawless with

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a deep red beauty and finally

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formed pedals my

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name is barb would say stretching

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her stand in the morning sun how

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are ya the one on the sunday

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good said blush with a sneer

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that i had a terrible nightmare

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that i was you

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he laughed and bashful as

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always piled on yeah

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say they want to wake up and smell the roses

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may mean us not you

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the pair laughed together and

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barb sunk on her stock he

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would complain to her mom a sign

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old bush about the teasing that

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her mom would always answer the same way

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in the eye of the beholder she'd

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say who cares if you don't look

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like the others looks are only

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pedal deep anyway it's what's

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in the roots that counts and i know

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you got some good roots and you

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know it too the just be happy

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and ignore any one who gives you

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a hard time var

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would nod it wasn't always

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easy one day

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norman of the hungry snail remember

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him found his way into

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the rose garden he

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was huge at this point

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nearly the size of a baseball and

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he was looking for some flowers to devour

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these were closest to the door and they

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went first norman had

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a bunch for breakfast and a dozen for

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dinner after that

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the tulips were totaled and

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norm and was feeling sad and happy

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finally he made his way back

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to the roses oh

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these look delectable he

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said read and write

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in ready to be eaten the

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approached one and then shrank back oh

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thorns well nice

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meal just became a prickly situation

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he paused and thought for a moment and

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ran smiles and made his way

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over to blush snobby

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rose was standing tall and proud

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and she looked down at the hungry snail with

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interest he never seen

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a snail before so she didn't understand

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that she should be afraid you're

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weird little thing she said

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are those and can i they

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are said norman they

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look at you you're truly

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a thing of rare beauty hua

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you're almost completely perfect

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why thank you said

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bless no the

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way almost perfect

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well yes almost

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completely beautifully perfect

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flash towels well you better

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check your eyes slug ago because

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i'm as pretty a thing as you're ever

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like to see aren't not

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pedals pristine what

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are your said norman event

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my stamp sublime of

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course it is well then

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how am i not perfect

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well i said norman quite

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carefully

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it's your thorns they are so

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sharp and ugly the

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rest of you is truly a work of art

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but how many works of art have you seen with

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not stuck own i'm what

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do you mean

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norman the hungry snail

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finished his song and blush considered

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it for a moment why

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that does make a lot of sense why

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should a beauty like me be so

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sharp the what

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and flourish blush shrugged

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off her thorns a moment

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she was smooth and safe

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now do i look perfect she

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asked

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we edible

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norman replied and before blush

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could react he doubled up all

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of her pedals and left her a bear

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bald stem

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a burp he moved on into the garden

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that he came upon lessons friend

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bashful you

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know world are you national

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asked in her typical piecing boys

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a burger with us shale

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the well you look like the most beautiful

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flower in the world that

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norman you're scanning

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gorgeous we are just

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about nearly almost

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perfect thank

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you said bashful

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then she stopped herself nearly

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almost perfect she said

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people gonna barbs see the

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ugly one and i'm supremely

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sublime you

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are you nearly are

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said norman

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that

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right

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bashful asked eagerly

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why didn't know world

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well it's your thorns

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after the song bashful looked at norman

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for a long moment and then smiled

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you're

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right why do i have always

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prickly little snacks oh nice especially

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those for weird al's lack barb

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with a shirt and a semi bashful

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sad all her thorns letting

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them pitter patter to the dirt how

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do i like now he

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asked posing for norman the

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us yes that the snail

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and then he ate all of bashful

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petals leaving her a green

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stem bear like a popsicle

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stick he went to the next

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flower in the line which was of

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course barb he

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was enjoying the sun on her crooked

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petals without a care

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in the world wow

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what a beautiful rose

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that norman trying to play on

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the roses vanity once again

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surely you must be nearly completely

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perfect i

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think anyone is perfect barb

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said remembering the lessons from her

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mother oh you are

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flat merely except

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fat nothing said barbed

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breezily beauty is in

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the eye of the beholder you

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just lose the thorns you'd

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be so so what

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no beautiful

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said norman without the

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thorns who believe you'd

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be a beauty car

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because for a moment where's

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the snail telling the truth the

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remembered all the things her mother had told her

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and she knew she shouldn't care that

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she really did want to be beautiful just

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then the wind blew and

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on the breeze barb could hear to

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tiny voices it

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was wash and bashful it's

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a trick bar but don't

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the floor

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or story oh

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barb gasps and looked down

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at a snail's still staring up

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at her waiting for a response

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what a nasty slimy

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little trickster he was

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have a made me

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every time

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the idea came to her mind

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how you aren't gonna get me that

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easy beautiful just

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the way i am so you can take your

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opinions about me and crawl

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loss to wherever ugly slug

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like you hang out the

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way norman

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looking down at his bulging body and shiny

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shell i am a

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perfect snails specimen

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well i mean you could

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be that barb who

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would be how

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norman

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well

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watch why said

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norman your smile

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i'm sorry but it is

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hideous my shale

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norman real oh

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you'd like away better without it

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give it a try

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norman shrubs and crawled out of his

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shell hey this

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isn't so bad he said

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then bar bench with the breeze

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and gave him a thorny whips across

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as soft side that

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one was store blush he

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whacked in again and that one

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was for bashful with

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the second thorny to whack he went

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flying across the garden and tumbled

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out the door he sent his

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cell spinning after him now

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stay out of my board and barb

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shouted after him once

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they had regrown a bit blush

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and bashful apologize for having

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been so

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mean

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thank barb for sticking up for them

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with nasty norman if

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we hadn't been so vain we

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never would have fallen for that snails

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flock there were three adolescence

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you in the first place barb you

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have been right all along don't

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beat yourself up about it said barb

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everyone always says that roses are only

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supposed to be beautiful of course

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he believed them i'm just glad

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mama reminded me that there's more

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to us than that amen

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to that sister yes ma'am

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norman a little shaken

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after his encounter with bar but he

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was basically fine the

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old over to his discarded shell

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and crawled back inside then

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the humbly away after

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that he stopped being quite so greedy

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and went from absolutely enormous

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to just regular large and

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he never went near another rose

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again

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the and

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story wake up and smell

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the roses with an adaptation

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of an old fable written for you by daniel

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heinz added it and produced for you

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