In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.

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For these moments, her nearly prehensile-looking feet, which have become as much her signature as her extravagant leg extensions, were not quite bare.

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This life in the glittering eye of the prehensile raccoon was what I wanted, and never had I felt so absolutely secure, as if the several phantom images of myself had resolved into the final form of who I was clearly and firmly the Howard Wakefield I was meant to be.

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