How Clarence B. Snerkle Became An All American Boy

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This is a story for anyone who wants to join in the writing.

The full title is "How Clarence B. Snerkle Became An All American Boy At Age 96 Despite His Earlier False Starts and Sad Mishaps."

I'll begin by writing the first paragraph or two. Then the next person add another paragraph or two. And so on.

Here goes:

Much to his dismay, Clarence B. Snerkle was not born an all American boy -- although he desperately wanted to be one. In fact, Snerkle was not even born American. Instead he had the good luck to be born English. Yet, he himself never came to see his English birth as lucky. Far from it: He rued the day he was born English. For Clarence aspired to be an All American boy.

Clarence had wanted to be an All American Boy ever since he could remember. When, at the age of six, he heard that President Bush had invaded Iraq, Clarence invaded his neighbor's yard in the futile hope that by doing so he could become a true American boy, just like President Bush. Unfortunately, his neighbor's yard harbored an insurgency in the form of a large dog that chased him off before he could topple his neighbor's government. That was Clarence's first essay into being an all American boy --- and his first failure to become one. There were to be many others.