Emergency Prervailed -- A Zapfic Freewrite

I wouldn't have bothered to cross the river if not for the emergency at hand, now that it is crossed, and we later heard of the taboo not to cross the river, it was not something nobody can do anything about, too late. tradition has bite the dust. Emergency prervailed.

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