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Nope.

I don’t believe you. There’s no way you could have fended off those velociraptors and their inter-dimensional captors with a spork and a water gun. No, you didn’t go into the matrix, or find an heirloom of the Norse, or find a cure for when your throat gets hoarse. You most certainly did not bring forth Satan with a glass-blown tuning fork and those pictures you have are photoshopped. A seismograph cannot detect a pulse from that distance, you would have to be close, so it did not help you defeat the devil, which you’re undoubtedly making up as well. You cannot throw marshmallows into black holes, you would be crushed by the gravity, far sooner than pushed within marshmallowing range. You did not kill, nor disembowel a mutant roll of paper towel nor did you invent the interrobang. I wish you would just please quit trying to convince me that you came back from dying especially after you weren’t mauled by a bobcat. You did not inject yourself with nanobots, or anonymously author a Times Best-Seller about the struggling wife of a poor bank teller. Stop deluding yourself, Johnny, it was only a dream. Son, go back to sleep.
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