JACKPOT! JACKPOT! CALVIN HIT THE JACKPOT! 🥜🐿 🌨
Never Enough
An Original Modern Fairy Tale
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UNITED STATES V.S. CALVIN CHIPMUNK 🥜 FUNKYTOWN, USA
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What You In For?
One hot, humid summer day, a hog and a chipmunk sat inside a federal prison cell.
The hog looked at Calvin, sweat running down his humongous back and oversized butt.
He could not not inquire.
"So, Chipmunk... what you in for?"
Calvin looked at him.
"It's complicated."
"Try me."
Calvin thought for a moment.
"Well... it started last summer."
And what a summer it had been.
Short Nap Dream Trap
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Short Nap Dream Trap 🥜🐿💤🌨
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There Was Always Tomorrow 🌽 🐜 🦗 🌨
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There Was Always Tomorrow
One morning, Calvin woke to another beautiful day.
The butterflies were feeding from the buttercups. The river moved gently along its banks, and the forest was green and full of life.
Food was plentiful. The days were warm. Calvin didn't have a care in the world.
And why should he?
There was always tomorrow.
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A Perfect Day for a Kite 🪁🥜
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Just Enough Wind 🪁 🍃
The summer days rolled on.
Calvin spent his mornings gathering whatever he wanted and his afternoons doing whatever he pleased.
One afternoon, the wind picked up just enough to fly his favorite kite.
High above the trees, Legit spotted something unusual floating through the sky.
A peanut.
At least, that's what it looked like from up there.
Legit circled around for a closer look.
Calvin looked up and waved.
The wind carried Legit away.
Calvin loved the wind.
He had no reason not to.
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Visiting Hours 🦜🐿️
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The Last Shovelful 🥜
Months later, winter came hard.
It was the kind of winter that buried food beneath snow and frozen ground. For the animals living outside, finding something to eat wasn't simply difficult.
It was survival.
Legit, an African grey parrot, had been searching most of the day. A nut tree. An acorn. Anything.
Then, from a distance, he noticed movement.
A chipmunk.
A forklift.
And one last shovelful of peanuts.
Calvin was so busy finishing what he'd started that he almost didn't notice the large gray bird watching from a distance.
Almost.
His instincts caught it before his brain did.
Predator.
Calvin jumped, cracked his head against the forklift, and his hard hat tumbled into the snow.
He didn't stop for it.
Calvin got the hell out of there.
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Legit Saw Everything 👀🦜
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The Evidence 🥜 🔍
By the time Legit reached the road, Calvin was gone.
So was the forklift.
Broken peanut shells littered the snow. Tiny chipmunk tracks crossed the road beside the deeper tracks of a forklift.
And despite the bitter cold, the smell of diesel still hung in the air.
Then something near the edge of the road caught Legit's eye.
Yellow.
Half-buried in the snow was a hard hat.
Legit hopped closer and turned it over.
Written across the front in black marker was one name:
CALVIN.
Legit looked down the road in the direction the forklift had gone.
He wasn't looking for Calvin.
He was looking for the peanuts.
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-20° F Below🌡️🥶
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Very Cold 🥶🦜❄️
It had been an unusually brutal winter.
Where the area might normally see one or two blizzards in a winter, this year they seemed almost constant.
Food had become difficult to find.
For Legit, hunger was no longer something he could ignore.
Then he saw the food drive.
And on a day like this, that was enough to get him out of his tree.
Meanwhile... 🐿️🥜
A few houses away, Calvin sat warm inside his home.
The food drive had given him something to think about.
He had nearly twenty thousand peanuts.
Surely, he could spare a few.
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Ten Peanuts 🥜 😰
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Ten Seemed Just Right 🥜
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Ten Was More Than Enough 🥜
Calvin had nearly twenty thousand peanuts.
He decided he could spare ten.
Ten seemed like the appropriate number.
In fact, the more Calvin thought about it, ten was more than enough.
So he bundled up, drove through the bitter cold, and headed for the food drive.
With all ten.
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Fed. Search Warrant 🐿️🚨🥜
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Law & Order ⚖️
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Law & Order ⚖️
Having dropped off his donation, Calvin hurried home.
He had 19,989 peanuts waiting for him, and being away from them was already making him nervous.
When he pulled up to his house, National Park Service law-enforcement rangers were there with a federal search warrant.
The search didn't take long.
Inside Calvin's house, the rangers found 19,989 peanuts.
Calvin had donated ten.
He had eaten one.
The rest were evidence.
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You Should’ve Eaten the Evidence 🥜
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Calvin finished his story.
The hog stared at him for a moment.
Calvin lowered his head.
“So... I guess greed was my problem.”
The hog shook his head.
“Hell no! You should’ve eaten the evidence.”
