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THE PRODIGAL HAMSTER

The family of four was minding its own business, watching a game on TV . . . when suddenly, a powdered-sugar doughnut ran across the room right in front of the set!!!

AAAIIIEEE!!! But don’t worry, it wasn’t The Case of the Mysterious Levitating Pastry From the Twilight Zone. Underneath that doughnut was their long-lost hamster!

He had escaped a full month before. They had looked high and low, and finally held funeral services in absentia.

Apparently, the gray and white little rodent had lived on food crumbs left by the two boys all over the house, which became the subject of stern parental lectures about . . . leaving food crumbs all over the house. Although in this case, it was a good thing.

The prodigal hamster downed a whole bottle of water, and then slept for days, a wayward vagabond who, like Dorothy, could say gratefully, “There’s no place like home.”