| Hell opened a new wing on the sixth of June and expanded into the area of human,
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| lustful yearnings with a shopping mall the size of Canada and consumer
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| friendly strategies:
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| «Reasonably priced goods and free parking to cover all your hellish needs».
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| The red ribbon was cut by Martin Luther, Gandhi and Mussolini in a televised
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| ceremony of epic proportions broadcasted at six o’clock sharp. |
| They all smiled
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| to the cameramen from Diabolos Daily and the Hell Gazette as the brimstone
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| building was made accessible to sinful shoppers of all ages and convictions.
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| Sadly the C.E.O. |
| could not be there for the opening though his spirit lay thick
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| over the parking lot.
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| Shamka, the Arab clerk, smiled his largest smile as the customers started
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| seeping through the revolving door and into the sulphur-smelling,
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| muzak-filled mall. |
| Armed with strange copper coins and charcoal check books,
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| ceaselessly searching for Beelzebub’s best bargains.
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| Everything was neatly stacked in monstrous shelves that demanded climbing
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| skills and a complete absence of acrophobia. |
| Several shoppers ceased to hope
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| for happiness already there, returning their coins and crawling back to the
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| surface Dependent, dim and drowning in a self-inflicted loss of dignity.
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| Those who stayed behind eventually got lost and ended up desperately searching
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| for the emergency exit. |
| They found there was none, and there coins were
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| collected while their check books were torn to shreds.
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| Luckily they all had credit cards |