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My new children’s book “the happiest cornflake” will be serialized on the back of\u2026 let’s fill our bowls with imagination. Visualize. Stay puffed. Donut be a marshmallow in the resistance. Donut sugarcoat things. Donut go soft. I am General Mills. This is a dry cereal outpost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My new children’s book “the happiest cornflake” will be serialized on the back of\u2026 let’s fill our bowls with imagination. Visualize. Stay puffed. Donut be a marshmallow in the resistance. Donut sugarcoat things. Donut go soft. I am General Mills. 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