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Another caption that pretty much just wrote itself.  I like when that happens!

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Caption Transcript:
My wife Debbie and I were spending a quiet weekend afternoon in a park by our house.  She was catching up on her tan while I was just relaxing and working on a little photography.  Eventually, we both began to get hungry, so I asked her what she wanted and headed  over to a snack bar which had been set up in another part of the park.

As I was returning to where we had set up, I quickened my pace when I saw what appeared to be Debbie leaning over the camera and playing with it.  She was well aware that I usually didn't appreciate her playing around with my toys, but it was usually innocent and in good fun.  This time was no time for fooling around, though.  When I finally arrived, I saw my worst fear had come true – posed in front of the camera was a shiny plastic mannequin that had just a short time earlier been my wife.  She probably intended to leave me a flirtatious image to find later on as she often did; however, this time she did so with a camera having various, well, extra features, and in so doing left me much more than just a simple snapshot.  The good  news is that the camera is only capable of timed transformations; the bad news is that the timer was set to random, so her transformation could last anywhere from one to 65,535 hours.  I could not see the actual number used; it cleared from the screen before I arrived.

This all happened two years ago.  Since that day, Debbie has faithfully served as my own personal display piece.  I keep her dusted and periodically change her clothing, waiting for the day she turns back.  It could be today, or it could still be another five and a half years away.