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A GIANT ROOM OF INCESTUOUS MONKEYS

group of shirtless climbers huddle together at the base of the hardest problem in the gym. The alpha male works his way up the steep route with barely visible holds, throwing in a deftly executed campus move to a horrid crimp on the way to the top of the wall, to be rewarded by cries of jubilation and support from his lesser gibbons. Alpha gibbon drops to the mat, immediately to be offered a line of

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