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“No way you can get stuck. Your head is much smaller. Look at this big coconut of mine. It's practically Jupiter. Yours is more like, I don't know, Mercury or something." "That doesn't mean I'm going along with an idea that you're pulling out of Uranus." We both stopped to snicker. Hard to resist a…” quote by Brad Parks — Download Open image

““No way you can get stuck. Your head is much smaller. Look at this big coconut of mine. It's practically Jupiter. Yours is more like, I don't know, Mercury or something." "That doesn't mean I'm going along with an idea that you're pulling out of Uranus." We both stopped to snicker. Hard to resist a Uranus joke.””

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