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Intro music: Humorous and Comic Intro
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There you are, standing in the grocery store, surrounded by bins of green watermelons. You knock. You thump. You lift one like it’s a newborn and whisper, “Are you the chosen one?”

Someone next to you is doing the same thing. You make eye contact.

It’s a silent competition.

It’s a public act of fruit-based divination.

It’s probably a folk thing.

Music Credits
Intro music: Humorous and Comic Intro
By Free Music — soundcloud.com/fm_freemusic
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Available at: chosic.com/download-audio/27133/
Music promoted by Chosic