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( The countdown had stalled at ‘T’ minus )
( 69 seconds when Desiree, the first )
( female ape to go up in space, winked at )
( me slyly and pouted her thick, rubbery )
( lips unmistakably — the first of many )
( such advances during what would prove )
( to be the longest, and most memorable, )
( space voyage of my career. )
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( — Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton )
( bad fiction contest. )
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