This was written for my creative writing class. The story definitely has some structural problems I wasn’t able to fix, so to make it less likely anyone ever reads it I will leave it in compressed form.

use Compress::Zlib;use MIME::Base64; print(uncompress(decode_base64(“eJxtWt3OHMdxve 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