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    in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa."don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. "i do not believe it.""it's true," sally said defiantly."in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?

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    Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

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    The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes.

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    Perhaps the ghastliest disease endemic to mosquitia is Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, sometimes called white leprosy, caused by the bite of an infected sand fly. The Leishmania parasite migrates to the mucus membranes of the victim's nose and lips and eats them away, eventually creating a giant, weeping sore where the face used to be.

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    jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid

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