AMITY LI
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copyright (c) Thor May
2000, all rights reserved
There once was a girl called Amity Li who wasn't too pretty,
but she was smart. She dated a man who worked in a shoe shop, and just to
please him agreed that Kentucky Fried was the best of all possible places
to go for a swish night out. The shoe shop man was ecstatic, and gave her
his mobile phone, which next to dainty, lace-up shoes, was the nearest
thing to his heart.
Now Amity Li had ambition. That day after work she didn't
call the shoe man's mother's house, where he still lived on 20 yuan pocket
money a week. No, she called God, who thought she had a damned cheek, but
didn't hang up in her ear when she asked what he'd most like in the
world.
It had never occurred to God to want anything else, since he
had it all. But when she asked, he felt a twinge of desire, and realized
that he hadn't the heart of Amity Li. It was awful to know that he hadn't
the heart of Amity Li. She had to be won. So he pledged to give her her
heart's desire. Amity's heart skipped a beat, but only one beat, before
she uttered the price. I'd adore, she murmured, a free phone account for
eternity.
So now you know why, to this day, you can still hear her
voice just by dialling directory assistance.
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Amity Li
copyright (c) Thor
May 2000, all rights reserved
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