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    Old Friends Are the Best
    Old Friends Are the Best
    Old Friends Are the Best
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    Old Friends Are the Best

    By Jack Sharkey

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: Old Friends Are the Best

      Author: Jack Sharkey

      Release Date: October 18, 2010 [EBook #33871]

      Language: English

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      OLD FRIENDS ARE THE BEST

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      [Transcriber note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories March 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Are you one of those people who save the best things for the last ... who eat all the chocolate sundae away from under the maraschino cherry? If so, you are very like the Peter W. Merrill Moonplant.

      It had no awareness of time, and so did not know nor concern itself with the millennia that passed since it first drew up the dissolved silicates from the shifting grey remnants of soil and arranged them inside the walls of the thousand green pods that were its body cells, and settled down to wait. Somewhere within its fragile cortex, a tiny pulse of life beat. It was a feeble pulse, to be sure, and one that a man, unless he could observe it for a thousand years without blinking, would not be aware of. As the normal human heart beats seventy-two times a minute, so did this tiny swelling of tube contract once each hundred years; fifty

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