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SPOOKY SHORT STORY | Remember the nursery rhyme of the boy who fell into the well?
That boy grew into a man and he's still down there, longing for someone to find him and bring him back to the surface.
When a paranoid woman happens upon him, she learns the terrible fate of the boy from the nursery rhyme that has left her neurotic for years.
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