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Once upon a time, there was a young man named Henry that once lived inside of a balloon. It all started when Henry worked in a balloon factory. His job was to blow balloons.
Blow balloons? That’s an easy job. What could go wrong?
All sorts of crap.
There was one balloon that he inflated. It kept growing and growing and growing. The balloon had infinite expansion. His lungs were oh so tired so he took a break. When he sat down, he accidentally let go of the balloon and the balloon began sucking everything in sight.
Sucking? Aren’t balloons supposed to make fart-like noises and flop around the place as it deflates? Not this balloon. This balloon doesn’t deflate. It self-inflates as long as the balloon opening stays open. Henry didn’t know about this and the balloon sucked him in.
The good news was the balloon didn’t engulf his entire body. The bad news was half of his body was trapped in the balloon opening.
So everywhere he went, he had to carry around the ballon. People that knew henry never saw…