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They all loved Grams Monster Cookies

When I am old I shall be an acrobat Granny Fee said. People will cheer and stomp their feet at me The clapping will be thunderous I may join Barnum and Bailey’s right now I think they went out of business her grandson Joe said. The rest of them almost laughed until they saw Granny Fee's face. Don’t even think about eating one of my monster cookies she told Joe His sister sneaked him two of them after supper I am working on my sequined costume Granny Fee told her son. “Not that again!” her doubtful son Biff said, rolling his left eye. His children were silent. Gram slapped Biff's left hand when it reached for a monster cookie. In the summer the family went to the circus. Granny Fee begged off at the last second. “Hey! Isn’t that Granny Fee? It sure was. In costume, on the high wire, balancing her corpulence on a pink hippo. The family clapped, cheered, hooted and whistled. They loved Granny Fee's delicious chocolate chip monster cookies. And they all knew that she had marvelous hearing.

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