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click and clack to Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the

failed Secession Division here at Car Talk Plaza.

Sad.

I'm sure you've all heard by now that our secession movement has failed.

Several weeks ago, the good, though not very wise people of Cambridge voted by less than a percentage

point to keep Kartak Plaza as part of our fair city.

Now, unlike the Quebec movement, which was the real deal,

this started off as like an expulsion movement.

Cambridge was trying to get rid of us.

I don't understand why.

We're perfect citizens, sort of.

Well, actually, what happened was we finally saw the advantages of being a separate municipality

and we turned the tables on them.

We said, you can't fire us we quit exactly we figured

if Kartok Plaza were its own city that my brother could finally finally be

named philosopher King of someplace. It's been a dream.

Of course you'd have to pick up the garbage as well,

but more importantly, if Kartor Plaza were to secede,

I wouldn't have to pay all those overdue Cambridge parking tickets.

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