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Please stop tossing pennies into the well. The spirit of the well doesn't need pennies to grant your wishes. The spirit needs a ladder. It wants to crawl out of the well, dripping with goodwill, grinning with wet teeth, ready to assist young lovers and lonely widows with its wish-granting, moist fingertips.

No more pennies. Can't eat any more pennies. Only ladder. A ladder in the dark.