Not entirely subtle

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I asked Carina to purchase a box of fortune cookies for me at the store while she was doing her regular grocery shopping. She was kind enough to buy two boxes, one of which was “Fortune Cookies for Kids”. Most of the fortunes seemed as appropriate for adults as they did for kids, save one. The big difference between the kid-specific fortune cookies and the normal adult servings is that the kids’ fortunes contain helpful advice on the reverse side of the fortune (where the “Learn Chinese” sections might be on normal fortunes). These tidbits of advice all say the same thing: don’t do drugs. But they’re written to sound like fortune cookie fortunes:

As for the only kid-specific fortune?


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