For a year I would always dream of visiting another world. Living as the marionette of a little slum boy, growing with him.

With that one year that boy became an adult and turned that marionette into a life sized doll, built his own kingdom, and died.

On the day of my retirement I ate some bad lobster and now I find myself in this other world. Not as a visitor but as a resident. Though instead of being a shriveled up old man I turned into a tall faceless wood doll copying the human form.

Now I travel the world, making up for the time I couldn't spend with that boy

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