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 Boy likes girl. Girl likes boy. Boy tries to impress girl. Boy stands on head, wiggles ears, whistles "Yankee Doodle" through front teeth. Girl gets bored watching boy. Wanders off looking at flowers. Boy gets frantic and starts turning cartwheels, climbing trees and hanging by knees from branches. Eventually falls from branch and lands on head. Girl feels sorry for boy and nurses boy back to health. Boy even more brain damaged after fall than before. Resumes cartwheels and branch hanging. Girl wonders how males ever found time to discover fire, wheel, toothpaste, trays for ice cubes and various chemical compounds. Girl gets idea! Decides to make use of boy's excess energy. Girl marries boy and they move into home. Girl presents boy with long list of chores. Boy looks at list. Studies list while surfing channels with TV remote. Boy falls asleep studying list and girl goes ballistic. Girl wakes boy up with steady volley of words, pots and pans directed at head of boy, followed by more words. Boy confused. What happened to girl who nursed broken head and soothed fevered brow? Girl confused. What happened to boy's excess energy? Ten years pass in blink of eye. Girl still making list of chores each day. No longer bothers to show list to boy. Just does chores herself. Boy now has new TV set with six hundred, fifty eight channels. Boy happy as clam. Girl wishing she had concentrated more on flowers and less on boy hanging from tree limb. Boy earns living by selling appliances that make "Women's work" more enjoyable. Girl's list of chores gets longer each year. Two children born of this ridiculous union. One a boy and the other a girl. Mother watches girl pick flowers while neighborhood boys hang from nearby tree limbs. Mother shudders with awareness that things are coming full circle. Boy learns to hang from own tree branch. Father wakes up from nap, puts down remote and points proudly to boy. "'At's my boy" he tells anyone who will listen. Mother too tired to even throw pots and pans anymore. And they all live happily ever after...................
 
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