“Pretend You’re a Piñata and When You Burst, Tickles Come Out”

You can shatter the tickle piñata again and again, and the tickles never stop coming, until the piñata has to get ready for work and you cling to him laughing and demanding more, and he really honestly would prefer instead to stay home and fall apart a million times while you laugh at silly jokes and cheap thrills, which is really what the piñata realizes is the point of living, after all. The tickle piñata adores you, but please punch him more gently.

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