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...'They don't know what to do -- the old people,' Sam says, returning with our caffeine. 'At funerals, you know.' So he came up with the idea of sending them down here -- to hang out with frolicking dead animals. Maybe human heaven will be just as much fun.



What do kids think of all this?, we ask. 'They love it!' Sam exclaims. 'Of course, kids...they don't like killing animals. I don't like killing animals.' Then how did all these dead animals end up here? 'Road kill,' Sam answers. 'And accidents.' Sam says that all the chipmunks came from local golf courses. 'Killed by golf balls.' "



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