An opossum in Nebraska may have thought it was her lucky day when he found an entire Costco chocolate cake. But the 'Cake Bandit' ended up needing emergency care after eating the whole thing.

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

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