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Appleterlife

Magnus got slowly to his feet. “What just happened?” he wondered. Then he looked down, and saw his corpse with the knife blade sticking all the way through it. “Oh.”

He looked around, and saw the great glowing stairway leading up off of this mortal coil, and sighed. Then he looked down and saw the ghost of the Pink Lady apple sitting next to the sliced segments that were slowly turning brown. “Oh well, at least I’ll have something to eat on the long walk.”

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