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Score: 7.3 / 10 
Aunt Elsie
I had an aunt named Elsie and every time there was a family gathering, Aunt Elsie would fall asleep on the lounge chair. It was always a source of great mirth to the rest of us. 'Oh, Aunt Elsie's fallen asleep again,' someone would say, and we'd all laugh heartily. Then one New Year's Eve, after many hours of laughing at her we suddenly realised that Aunt Elsie was dead. The laughter soon subsided. But then she slowly disappeared like Yoda in Return of the Jedi. Everybody applauded and agreed that this was a neat trick indeed. Then it occurred to me that perhaps her disappearance after her death was some kind of genetic quirk, so we decided to kill her children, Bo and Luke (the identical ophthalmologist twins) to test this theory. They didn't fade away but I still maintain it was an experiment worth undertaking, particularly seeing as how they were both really obnoxious and always going on about their BMWs.
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