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evincarofautumn
3663 days ago
If you want to grow pickles, it’s right to ask for cucumber seeds, even though a cucumber is not a pickle.
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icc97
3662 days ago
There's a mighty large Ali sized difference between pickles vs cucumbers and slave name vs ancestor name.
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evincarofautumn
3662 days ago
What I mean is that the only known way to produce a Muhammad Ali is to start with a Cassius Clay, even though there is an important distinction between them.
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