Growing Up

It is a well known fact that sunshine makes children unruly, play makes children rebellious, and interaction with other children leads to licentious behavior.

The only reasonable solution in the small town of Connersville, Tennessee was to lock the children indoors until they could properly handle the world as adults. Yet somehow the children never matured, and remained naïve to the wiles of worldliness. A town meeting was called to assess the problem.

“I don’t understand,” Barbara-Jean-Anne Wilcox spoke up, “We’ve protected them. How is that harmful?”

The children fled as the adults convened. They fulfilled their parents’ every worst nightmare.

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