My father always ate everything on his plate. When done, he would pick it up and lick it clean. After that he would pick up all our plates and lick each and every one of them clean. Finally – a coup de grace if you will - he would pick up his plate and devour it bite by bite, swallowing every shard of glass until his plate was entirely consumed. Then, with sweeping finality, while blood cascaded from his smiling lips, he would extend both arms and shout: “And for my next trick!!”
How he managed to repeatedly do this has forever mystified both me and my equally stunned siblings.
BILL
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