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Then, in the midst of my panic, I heard a ghostly, french-speaking
voice. "Si tu continue, je te casse les dentes! Si tu continue, je te casse les dentes!" [7Xr(translation): "If you continue, I will break your teeth!"]. It was Edith LaFontaine, great grandmother of my creator, Vidal Van Prell. As an obscure Parisian cabaret singer during World War II, LaFontaine had lifted the spirt of many a downtrodden G.I. with her music. Now it was as if her lyrical, somewhat threatening voice was giving *me* hope. LaFontaine was letting me know if I continued to sink, she would "kick my ass." As my inner spirit levitated up and away from the volcanic hellpit, I could see my body floating in the magma below. A tunnel of blinding light appeared in the sky before me, and out of it flew three truck-sized spaceships, shaped like L'Eggs pantyhose containers. They were colored red, just like the flashing lights I'd seen!
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