Fortune cooky of today

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/ The camel died quite suddenly on the    \
| second day, and Selena fretted sullenly |
| and, buffing her already impeccable     |
| nails -- not for the first time since   |
| the journey begain -- pondered snidely  |
| if this would dissolve into a vignette  |
| of minor inconveniences like all the    |
| other holidays spent with Basil.        |
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| -- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton |
\ bad fiction contest.                    /
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  \                  .---.  <    > <    >  .---.
   \                 |    \  \ - ~ ~ - /  /    |
         _____          ..-~             ~-..-~
        |     |   \~~~\.'                    `./~~~/
       ---------   \__/                        \__/
      .'  O    \     /               /       \  " 
     (_____,    `._.'               |         }  \/~~~/
      `----.          /       }     |        /    \__/
            `-.      |       /      |       /      `. ,~~|
                ~-.__|      /_ - ~ ^|      /- _      `..-'   
                     |     /        |     /     ~-.     `-. _  _  _
                     |_____|        |_____|         ~ - . _ _ _ _ _>

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