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loud thump that shot out an air wave shocking their eardrums, and the twang as the trap swung the Mouse Queen back up in the air, to jiggle up and down like a bungee cord playing out – if it hadn’t been for all the noise – they might have lain in their muddy, morning mess of imagining for much too long.
Fortunately for our story, and for the Sweeties, they awoke with a jump. The Gingerbread Men hopped up and down on their stubby legs with their stubbier arms waving about as they shouted, “Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!” and then faster, “Wake up, wake up, wake up!”
Until everybody did. Wake up.
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