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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Best When I take my vacent stomach to the store, I still smile When a guy things he sees me eight inches down from my nose, I don't wish him badly I got a sweet tooth, so I go and get my Ronald Regan jelly beans out of my family's three hundred year old river yellow canister, You er think I don't remember my childhood, no shame,, the lies that continue, but I am a good looking country girl, and I know about shame, others shame, my shame; no there is shame, real shame I am down under in America where their are sections of stars, that actually move like nations and make structures, they

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This 'The Best' variant develops the country-girl voice through vacent stomach, male looking, Ronald Regan jelly beans, the river yellow canister, remembered childhood, shame, and moving star-sections in America.

The cleaned text strengthens the progression from intimate body detail to public shame and cosmic-national structure. The voice holds embarrassment, defiance, and cultural observation together.


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''''The Best' variant -- Ronald Regan jelly beans reappear in a 'river yellow canister.' The good-looking country girl knows about shame and claims 'sections of stars, that actually move like nations and make structures.''''