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From Beautiful to Viscous Vile: A Tomato’s Worst Nightmare
Once upon a time, there was a mysterious packet of ketchup on the ground. No one knows how long that packet of ketchup remained on the ground, but inside that packet of ketchup was an angry tomato. The tomato used to live a happy, fulfilling life. That was until he was selected within a small batch of tomatoes to join a secret factory. Only the best tomatoes were selected.
Next thing, he was a packet of ketchup.
No tomato wants to be ketchup. Tomatoes don’t mind people using them as pizza toppings or as a slice in their sandwich. They don’t mind being tomato juice. They don’t mind being anything.
Anything but ketchup.
Imagine being a beautiful, shiny, bulbous work of art only to turn into a sickly sweet viscous, gelatinous condiment that oozes out in a sticky, reddish-brown stream.
Hamilton was his name. Hamilton used to be that beautiful, shiny, bulbous work of art before he became ketchup. Now he’s inside a ketchup packet on the ground. His hate for being a…
