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and I missed the bit about finishing story...so here goes...

Although they resolved never to meet again...it was difficult for both of them...but then one day after they had both been boosted for the ninth time...and were suffering bouts of the effects of long term covid....he learnt that she had fallen to her death at the local shopping mall outside Woollies.. apparently she slipped on a used mask laying on the pavement when her foot got caught in the mask string, breaking her femur. He was so taken with grief he decided to honour her memory and transition into the woman she once was... so every time he looked into the mirror he could see her lovely face with the drooped eyes and the 6 masks gazing back at him.....

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Haha I dont remember reading this one, excellent ...

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😂😂😂 They both died after their 7th boosters!

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Where's the rolling around on the ground laughing with tears streaming out of my eyes emoji when you need it! 🤣🤣🤣 There will be a million thesis written for years to come on the absurdity that was the COVID response, but don't waste your time reading any of those, James has perfectly summed it all up here people 👏👏👏

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The End :)

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He dashed home dodging the police doing nightly curfew patrol. He scrabbled at his front door locks, caught his hazmat suit on the newly cut welds on the outside door frame, and slammed the door behind him. Home, and safe. He rushed to his laptop and tapped it alive. His beloved premier, the Great Leader, was on youtube urging him to obey all edicts. He opened his email.

There it was, she had sent him the most glorious love letter, as he knew she would.

“ I have never seen your face, yet it is a face I love. One day, when we can fully embrace, with only one face mask each, and after a fourth booster, we can rest in each others’ arms as we watch great leader thank us for our sacrifice.”

He turned, switched on the state-approved maxi-looped TV.

As he hoped, he was there, again, the Great leader on TV : “ For your patriotism and loyalty you will be rewarded. I will now allow you to offer up your homes to the original owners and custodians of this land. I will invite you to generously give to the state a greater share of any money you have left, so that others can live in comfort. I have secured enough booster shots for the rest of your life, your children’s lives, and your great grand childrens’. “

“Darling ,”she zoomed, “have you heard?”. “We can now offer up our homes to whatever tribe was fighting for which bit of land at whatever time it was. And have booster shots forever.”

“Yes, darling”.

“I always was yours, and always will be….”

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brilliant!

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One inaccuracy in the love story is that these covid-jabbers wouldn't dare take Ivermectin.

Ivermectin is for people who actually bother to conduct their own research, and realise that its more effective than the clot shot.

The couple lived happily ever after, continue to be 5x, 6x time boosted and triple masked, living in fear, until their Sudden Deaths.

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They didn’t live happily ever after. She had COVID, gave it to him and they died together, in an isolated hospital room

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Alas, and so forth, he reached for her when the panic was over, but was told she had an octopus like blood clot throughout her body, and was on life support. He started running through the woods to reduce his emotional pain but slumped at the fourth tree as his enlarged heart let him down.

“Such is life”, he murmured as the overworked ambos lifted him up, and started the siren.

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Pure Solid Gold James! who knew you could write romance LOL

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If you want to hear the rest of this story you'll have to check in to the State Government Web site and answer 50 questions each with 50 sub points detailing to the Enquiry into the Governments handling of the Covid 19 pandemic. You will also have to pass a Police check to establish why you desperately want to read this "Banned " Book! Only those who can prove they have up to date vaccination records will be able to pass behind the barriers to the rear shelves of banned books. Hazmat kits and masks must be worn and disposal of plastic wrappings around the article must be disposed of in the correct manner.

All applicants who pass through security must also sign a disclaimer to absolve all government officials from further scrutiny and litigations.

Want to gamble on the results? What are you really going to lose?

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Brilliant, and yet scarily, almost not satire.

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They passed each other by accident in train station several years later, but were never quite sure if it was really the person they had had such passion for. She was a pasty faced, dumpy little person wearing a shapeless coat and haunted expression. He, a small wizened little man unnaturally thin with an anxious expression and very thick glasses.

‘Was that...?’ she thought.

‘She looks a bit familiar ..’, he thought.

‘Couldn’t be’ , they both thought simultaneously.

Then he saw the mask go on as she entered a train.

He called out but the door closed and the train pulled out of the station.

He wandered sadly to other side of the platform and waiting for the train to take him home, sadly shaking his head as he put his mask on.

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Love it Jillian, truth masquerading as fiction

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This is a most hilarious story, I love it!

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They had so much guilt over their meeting without checking in, that they decided not to take the risk again of meeting in secret. So after five more booster shots to keep everyone safe, they both said "Goodbye cruel world" , he dropped dead in front of a crowd of equally jabbed, guilty people and she went on to have many strokes until suddenly, she too was taken from this cruel world

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Through a Telehealth appointment he was informed all the elbow bumping, had caused a painful ‘ tennis elbow’. Then in a dream Ms non-binary appeared alien like, covered in 🦠spike protein running toward him. He woke in horror - his love for her drowned in bath of sweat.

For her, love was squashed by a terrifying vision of bed-ridden long covid.

Life’s preservation had far outstripped their desires.😩

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