Wannabe V

About those vampire-wannabe identical twins I mention here, a friend of mine at the time — who had quite the way with words — said this about them:

“Those girls are as pretty as a picture. You look at them and think, ‘How could the universe have created a thing such as this, much less two?’ Then they open their mouths and they get real ugly real quick.”

Which was completely accurate.

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