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The scissors-swarm bursts past the jaguars while they are still coming up with excuses not to fight.

“Maybe the humans deserve this,” declares Chan. “Because of all the constitutional amendments against gay marriage!”

“Or even,” offers Yohl — nobody has ever accused magical jaguars in a decaying orbit around the Earth of being a homogeneous sociopolitical entity — “the gay marriage, itself!”

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