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The troll
Jason was trolling a woman on Twitter when his dad called him for dinner.
“Coming!” he yelled before typing yr jst a fat, ugly bitch! and pocketing his phone.
“Study going okay?” his mum asked when he arrived at the table.
“Getting there,” he said, flushed from his exertions.
They spoke about this and that and he had them laughing with his energetic retelling of a funny incident at school.
Then he asked to leave the table so as to get back to it.
“Don’t work too hard,” his dad said.
“I won’t,” he replied, reaching for his phone.
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