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      <image:title>Knock Knock Story - …THIS crumpled note.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I don’t know why they just can’t send me a letter, that works too…but the bigger the crumples, the bigger the story. So the note, it says this: “Hey story guy, you want a story, you want the biggest story of your life, you got any balls left, biggest story of the freakin’ century, meet me at the 24hr donut joint on Delaware Ave…if ya got the balls.” So here I am… …balls and all. (can’t say the same about Boomer, his balls, gone ya know but he’ll still bite your ass…)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Depends…down Boomer, down Boomer.” “Does he bite.” “Yep…we both do.” “Let’s go inside, I’m about to change your life forever…” “Uh Huh.” Boomer is now sniffing this guys balls, nose an inch or two deep in his crouch. “A, does he always do this.” “Nope, only when he is about to bite.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Knock Knock Story - “Well, well…in 1974 within the Arecibo Message that they sent into outer space it contained a lot of information about us, including a stick figure as to what we sort of look like, very primitive but was state of the art back then…”</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Uh huh” I have no idea what the dude is talking about.” “…but there was a mistake, a mistake in their calculations of time and distance, they said it would take 25,000 years to get to the desired spot in space, and another 25,000 years for us to get a reply, if in fact there would ever be a reply.” “Ha…so what, what happened, did you get a message from aliens or something…”. Boomer is back on the move. Quietly, “Yes.” “Yes, what.” “Yes they calculated wrong…” “Meaning…” “…at 03:17:42 am Western Time…” I put down my pen, Boomer sits back down under the table. “…they answered back.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Knock Knock Story - Slowly he slides the big tear-stained envelop across the table to me.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Boomer is moving out from under the table, I’m guessing by now he wants to see what’s inside it as well.  “Please, please, you are the only one I trust, I’ve been reading you since I was a child…”  Not the best way to move me kid.  “…but the world needs to see what the message from the stars was all about…”  The “world” dude I work for the Buffalo Courier for gawds sake.  “…I promise you this will…will…”  “But one small issue, why did you take the photo, isn’t that stealing.”  “Yes…”  “So…”  “…I was afraid if the government saw it, they would hide it, or worse, destroy it…”  “…why, why destroy it…”  “…just open it, just open it…”</image:caption>
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