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Poop Fountain!

Poop Fountain! book cover
An important note to the reader from Tom Angleberger Some of you may know that before I wrote the Origami Yoda books I used to be a newspaper reporter For years I covered everything that happened in this town down in the mountains of Virginia called Crickenburg And one of the hundreds of stories I wrote was about a big change at the sewage plant That was around the year 2000 and back then Crickenburg was growing like crazy and that meant there were a lot more people flushing toilets So they made the sewage plant bigger I had to go down to the sewage plant to interview the plant manager and MAN did it stink I stayed as far away from the big pools of brown goop as I could I got the facts and got out of there Then I wrote them up and the paper printed them I thought that was the end of the story But just recently I found out that there was a lot more that happened after that It was a lot crazier messier stinkier and yes POOPIER than I ever knew A few months ago this guy called me and told me he had found a big stack of really weird papers in the storage room of the old Qwikpick gas station on Franklin Street One of the things in the big stack was my story about the sewage plant