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Monterey Penguin, born Monterey of the Northern South Pole, lived his early years as a small flightless bird who pushed around giant blocks of ice for his father’s slushee-making business. His strenuous efforts to transport solid objects twice his size, and his insatiable cravings for chunks of those ice cubes, helped him plump up to a healthy and respectable body. And even though his education took a back seat to his father’s demands, Monterey still persisted to be the best ice transporter on the entire continent. Even though most of his friends and family would argue that he was too slow at his job, they all agreed that he still loved it anyway. But they weren’t sure why.

As his days of work and play grew longer and longer, and his physique continued to reflect the pain, Monterey became the focus of local attention. His large body and minimal wisdom became the source of much admiration by many of the female birds in his surrounding rookeries. Though he would never admit to his growing popularity, it became evident that he was a star when the lady penguins started to flock around him and gawk at his gaping bulky wings.