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<\/center><\/p>\nHe played the Balalaika… then ate it!<\/i><\/p>\n
I wasn’t quite sure what to do, so I clapped.<\/p>\n
He wasn’t finished yet.<\/p>\n
Everyone in the alien dinner theater scowled at me while he started again, from the beginning.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t see why this guy was such a big celebrity on this planet.<\/p>\n
Until he started to sing. It was the most amazing performance I’d ever heard.<\/p>\n
But the local aliens at my table weren’t too impressed. “Anyone with two heads can sing harmony like that,” they muttered.
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He played the Balalaika… then ate it! I wasn’t quite sure what to do, so I clapped. He wasn’t finished yet. Everyone in the alien dinner theater scowled at me while he started again, from the beginning. I couldn’t see why this guy was such a big celebrity on this planet. 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