Satirical Article Claims Declaration of Independence Began as Twilight Fan Fiction
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The Onion Staff
13h ago· 2 min readen
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A satirical article claiming that historians have theorized the Declaration of Independence originally started as Twilight fan fiction, with references to Edward Cullen and Bella Swan allegedly replaced during drafting.
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· 2 pulledBased on newly unearthed correspondence between our nation's Founding Fathers, we hypothesize that the document that ultimately became the Declaration originated as a non-canonical work of vampire romantasy fiction featuring Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.
Most direct references to the Twilight series were ultimately replaced with
WASHINGTON—Offering new insight into the origins of America’s founding document, a group of leading historians published a report this week theorizing that the Declaration of Independence started out as Twilight fan fiction. “Based on newly unearthed corr
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