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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Birth Control Pen Pals

  23-11-2016 23:57
  by Dan Savage
  I would bet that what I am about to offer is technically illegal but I really don't care because it is the right thing to do: I am in Canada and I do not take birth control myself. If any woman is denied her access to birth control pills I will happily get some for myself and send them to her and I hope others in my position will do the same for other women with the same need, should it arise in the following months and years. If other people have the technical skills and knowledge
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 70 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Thanksgiving Weekend

  23-11-2016 23:46
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate the beginning of holiday light season at WildLights at the Woodland Park Zoo, Snowflake Lane and Garden d'Lights in Bellevue, or Zoolights in Tacoma. Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo
  If you're spending Thanksgiving weekend in Seattle, you could follow our suggestions and try to intentionally have the worst Thanksgiving ever—or you could go out and experience some of the excellent entertainment Seattle has to offer that won't break your bank account. See o
  
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• 70 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Thanksgiving Weekend

  23-11-2016 23:46
  
  WildLights, Magic in the Market, Holiday Markets, And More $10-And-Under Options For November 23-27, 2016by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you're spending Thanksgiving weekend in Seattle, you could follow our suggestions and try to intentionally have the worst Thanksgiving ever—or you could go out and experience some of the excellent entertainment Seattle has to offer that won't break your bank account. See options below (starting on Wednesday night) that won't cost more than $10, including
  
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• No, ICE isn’t paying for tips on ‘illegal immigrants’

  23-11-2016 23:24
  
  Anonymous stickers falsely advertising "rewards paid for information leading to the arrest of illegal immigrants" are cropping up in Seattle. They carry the Homeland Security Department emblem as well as the ICE website, ICE.gov. And they're totally bogus.
  
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• Lisa Herbold Wins the Budget Fight: The Freshman Council Member Gets Stuff Done

  23-11-2016 23:00
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe $29 million Herbold has succeeded in getting for affordable housing will be available for nonprofit housing developers to pair with other funds.City of Seattle
  A week after Americans elected Donald Trump to the presidency—thrusting blue cities like Seattle into an uncertain future—the Seattle City Council was back to the budget-making grind. But in the face of the anti-poor, anti-cities administration that's preparing to take power in DC, the local haggling over s
  
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• Why Not Read The Wind in the Willows and Make Thanksgiving Day Even More Miserable

  23-11-2016 22:30
  
  by Charles MudedeWind in the Willows Characters RON ELLIS / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  There is nothing I hate more than talking animals. I hate them in movies; I hate them in books. Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, which is popular in Britain and was written in 1908, has nothing but animals that talk, talk, talk. Some speak in the manner of an upper-class Brit, such as with the toad, others in the manner of lower-class Londoners, as with the weasels. Page after page, we find animals having conv
  
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• It’s Black Lives Matter vs. Black Friday again in Seattle

  23-11-2016 22:12
  
  For the third year running, a large Black Lives Matter protest is planned for Friday at the downtown commercial district centered on Westlake Park. The march and demonstration coincide with Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping spree.
  
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• Charge: Man tried to lure twin teen boys into car in Central District

  23-11-2016 22:12
  
  After months of allegedly offering food, money and rides to teenage boys in the Central District, a 40-year-old man is charged with child luring.
  
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• Black Lives Matter demonstrators hit the streets in Seattle

  23-11-2016 22:12
  
  For the third year running, a large Black Lives Matter protest is planned for Friday at the downtown commercial district centered on Westlake Park. The march and demonstration coincide with Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping spree.
  
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• Here Are Your HUMP! Award Winners

  23-11-2016 22:10
  
  by Dan SavageHUMP! Best Sex Winner, Fuck on the Mount CHIP DUGGAN
  Before we get to the winners...
  Showing up to host HUMP! less than 24 hours after Donald Trump won the election was difficult. Like everyone at On the Boards that night—like the majority of Americans who voted on November 8—I was still reeling from the results. But after welcoming everyone to HUMP!, and after walking everyone through our three rules (no cell phones, no assholes, have fun), and after apologizing for all
  
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• Jill Stein Is Now Demanding a Recount in Three States

  23-11-2016 21:47
  
  by Charles Mudede BART.GOV
  Jill Stein, who has no patriotism issues (her one virtue), wants a recount in the three swing states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) that put Trump in power by an incredibly thin margin (just over 100,000 votes). The reason Stein gives for making this effort, which requires $2,500,000 (she has so far raised $30,000) is “compelling evidence of voting anomalies” in those states. But I think the real reason is this: it has finally dawned on her why man
  
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• Watch All Three Shitty Non-Seahawks Football Games on Thanksgiving

  23-11-2016 21:39
  
  by Tricia RomanoThese guys are sad because there’s no Seahawks game. MIHAILOMILOVANOVIC
  It may seem counterintuitive, but I hate watching sports in a sports bar. Sports bars are where other sportsball fans go, and generally speaking, I'm not really into sportsball fans, especially not a roomful of drunk and angry ones. I like going to places that I would normally hang out at that have a few TVs and happen to be showing the game where I can yell like a crazy person. (Hey, looking at you, Po
  
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• Where to Donate Food, Money, or Time on Thanksgiving

  23-11-2016 21:15
  
  by Heidi Groover VLADGRIN
  If you want to do something more than just get day drunk on Thanksgiving, consider donating time, food, or money to an organization that helps people who struggle to find a meal on Thanksgiving—and every other day, too.
  Chances are, your neighborhood has a food bank or meal service that would be happy to take your money, nonperishable food, or time. Look them up, give them a call, and find out what they still need. Below, we've listed a few opportunities to help g
  
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• Ailing humpback whale stuck on New York sandbar euthanized

  23-11-2016 21:03
  
  EAST MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) — An ailing humpback whale that became grounded on a sandbar in a bay was euthanized on Wednesday, three days after rescuers first tried to set it free. The death of the whale, which weighed between 15 and 20 tons and was about 33 feet long, angered some environmentalists and locals […]
  
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• Ailing humpback whale stuck in New York bay is euthanized

  23-11-2016 21:03
  
  EAST MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) — An ailing 25-foot humpback whale that became grounded on a sandbar off New York has been euthanized. Officials with the Riverhead Foundation of Marine Research and Preservation and others say the whale died Wednesday afternoon. The whale weighed between 15 and 20 tons. It got stuck in Long Island’s Moriches […]
  
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• The Worst Thanksgiving Breakfast: A Muffin on the Ferry

  23-11-2016 20:45
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleWORSE THAN BEING ALONE: Being alone on a ferry eating a sad muffin. ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE FORCE
  The first year I lived in Seattle, I wasn't in a good place with my family and wasn't going to go home to California to be with them. But I didn't know anyone here. I was renting a room in an apartment in the University District, and another person renting a room in that apartment had a sister on Bainbridge Island, and he invited me to go with him to Thanksgiving at her house. I
  
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• ‘It’s OK to whine’: 1,500 gather to mourn slain police dog in Boise

  23-11-2016 20:33
  
  Jardo, a Belgian Malinois, was shot Nov. 11 along with two Boise police officers by a parolee who was wanted in connection with a double shooting and carjacking.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Now Leading Donald Trump By More Than Two Million Votes

  23-11-2016 20:23
  
  by Dan SavageUSAToday:
  Hillary Clinton's margin in the popular vote against President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed 2 million, furthering the record for a candidate who lost in the Electoral College. Thanks to votes still being counted in California and other western areas, Clinton's vote advantage hit the 2 million mark on Wednesday morning, according to Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. As of mid-day Wednesday, Wasserman's spread sheet had Clinton at 64,225,863 votes to Trump's 6
  
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• Crystal and Mt. Baker open Friday for winter season, more could follow if Thanksgiving storm dumps enough snow

  23-11-2016 20:23
  
  Skiers and snowboarders looking for a post-Thanksgiving journey to the hillsides will have some options locally as well as  to the north in British Columbia and to south in Oregon. Crystal Mountain Resort and Mount Baker Ski Area announced their official opening date is Friday, and other areas are banking the upcoming Thanksgiving storm will […]
  
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• Sweat it out! Skin patch aims to test sweat for health

  23-11-2016 20:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking a sweat? Researchers are creating a skin patch that can test those droplets while people exercise and beam results to their smartphones, possibly a new way to track health and fitness. The experimental gadget goes well beyond activity monitors like the Fitbit. A little larger than a quarter, it’s almost like […]
  
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• The Giblet Incident: Why You Shouldn't Let Pescatarians Cook the Thanksgiving Turkey

  23-11-2016 20:20
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufWhy you shouldn't let pescatarians cook the Thanksgiving turkey.
  For the last five years, my friend Daria and I have thrown Friendsgiving dinner. As out-of-staters, we are typically too broke to fly home to eat with (and roll our eyes at) our families for the holiday. Instead, we bribe our fellow Seattle transplant friends with home-cooked food and promises of wine that is better than Two Buck Chuck (Trader Joe's infamously bad wine, Charles Shaw).
  We never bothered with bland
  
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• What will Thanksgiving traffic be like? It's already started

  23-11-2016 20:10
  
  If you're reading this, it's probably too late to truly avoid Thanksgiving holiday traffic, but we'll give you some pointers, anyway.
  
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• What will Thanksgiving traffic be like?

  23-11-2016 20:10
  
  If you're reading this, it's probably too late to truly avoid Thanksgiving holiday traffic, but we'll give you some pointers, anyway.
  
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• Man fatally shot on Capitol Hill is identified

  23-11-2016 20:09
  
  The 31-year-old man died from multiple gunshot wounds a day after he was shot on a Seattle street corner.
  
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• Democratic chair, under fire for 'disastrous results,' will seek reelection

  23-11-2016 19:17
  
  He's under fire, but Democratic State Chair Jaxon Ravens is running for reelection.
  
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• Egyptian archaeologists uncover Pharaonic village, tombs

  23-11-2016 19:16
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archeologists have discovered a Pharaonic village and cemetery once used by officials tasked with building royal tombs. The Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday that the find in the ancient city of Abydos dates back to the Early Dynastic Period, more than 4,500 years ago. Hani Aboul-Azm, a ministry official, says around 15 […]
  
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• For Clinton, Challenging Election Results Is Challenging the Love of White Males

  23-11-2016 19:15
  
  by Charles MudedeRigging is only for politicians who are not white males in the white male party, the GOP.Joseph Sohm/shutterstock.com
  If Donald Trump was only 100,000 votes from winning three significant swing states—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—best believe the presidential race would be with us today and maybe for a month or so more. He would not have conceded but attacked Clinton's victory with every available weapon. We know he would he have done this because he warned
  
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• Don’t Feel Sorry for the King (or the Prince) in Seattle Rep’s King Charles III

  23-11-2016 19:00
  
  by Sara PorkalobTurn that crown upside down, Harry!MICHAEL DOUCETT
  Performing now at Seattle Repertory Theatre, King Charles III is a fictional political drama based on the very real British royal family, written in blank verse by English playwright Mike Bartlett. Queen Elizabeth II has died, and now trepidatious Charles is King. Camilla, Kate, and Will are vying for power while Harry falls for a manic pixie dream girl/Socialist named Jess. Parliament needs the King’s signature to pass leg
  
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• Hillary Clinton's popular vote margin tops 2 million votes

  23-11-2016 18:57
  
  Bolstered by California's long vote count, Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by more than 2 million votes in the popular vote.
  
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• Men robbed after using social apps to meet a young woman

  23-11-2016 18:49
  
  The victims both agreed to meet a woman they met online at a Vancouver school, where they were robbed.
  
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• Pronto bike share will be gone soon, so what’s next?

  23-11-2016 18:45
  
  City officials are negotiating with a new bike-share company that provides electric bikes.
  
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• Nooksack Tribe says it has booted 289 people off membership rolls

  23-11-2016 18:35
  
  A lawyer for the people who were kicked off membership rolls says the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs won’t recognize the disenrollment because the Tribal Council lacked a quorum.
  
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• How to Have the Worst Thanksgiving Ever (On Purpose)

  23-11-2016 18:30
  
  by Stranger StaffHave a crappy Thanksgiving! LEVI HASTINGS
  You're new here. You don't know anyone. You have nowhere to go on Thanksgiving.
  Maybe you're a new student at the University of Washington or Seattle University or Seattle Pacific University and you can't afford to go home. Maybe you're a new hire at Amazon and you can't swing rent, student loan payments, and airline tickets (we know you make a lot of money, but not that much). Maybe your parents decided, after hosting Thanksgiving for t
  
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• Man who shot 9 nails into woman’s head in suicide pact gets prison

  23-11-2016 18:09
  
  The 31-year-old woman sustained permanent brain damage but survived.
  
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• The Morning News: Chris Reykdal Wins Superintendent Race, Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rules

  23-11-2016 17:54
  
  by Heidi GrooverChris Reykdal and Erin Jones
  Chris Reykdal Officially Wins Race for Superintendent of Public Instruction: Reykdal's opponent, Erin Jones, conceded Tuesday. With about 28,400 votes left to count, Reykdal had 50.5 percent of the vote and Jones could not catch up even if all the remaining votes went to her, the Seattle Times reports.
  Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rules: A federal judge blocked an Obama Administration rule set to take effect December 1 that would have made 4 million
  
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• Extra DUI patrols on tap for Black Friday

  23-11-2016 17:30
  
  Troopers will focus on interstates 90, 5 and 405 and Highway 520 near Seattle, according to the State Patrol.
  
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• Politicians, Seahawk Doug Baldwin Call for Police Deadly Force Law Reform. Will Olympia Listen?

  23-11-2016 17:29
  
  by Ansel HerzSeahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin called on officials to change the state law on police killings: “It’s the right thing to do,” he said.
  Washington State's extreme law on police deadly force, which all but immunizes police from prosecution for murder, could finally be changed if the state legislature honors sweeping new recommendations from an official task force charged with reducing fatal encounters between police and civilians.
  The recommendations, finalized o
  
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• In a pond called Wreck, a new creation helps fish breed

  23-11-2016 15:20
  
  SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — For years, the conflicting goals of protecting the environment and some of the Jersey shore’s priciest real estate from storms have bedeviled New Jersey’s Wreck Pond. Storms sometimes open a channel between the 48-acre tidal pond and the ocean, but governments keep sealing it shut to protect homes from flooding. […]
  
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• Guest essay: End separate classes for highly capable students at Seattle’s Ingraham High

  23-11-2016 15:02
  
  Teacher and parent Richard Truax shares his concerns about the way thehighly capable program is handled at Ingraham High in Seattle.
  
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• News analysis: Theater as safe space? History tells a different story

  23-11-2016 15:01
  
  In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion, via Twitter, that theater should be a safe space, many in the local theater community point out that theater and politics go back to the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, and even curtain-call speech has precedent.
  
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• ‘Hamilton’-Pence hubbub: Theater as a safe space? History tells a different story

  23-11-2016 15:01
  
  In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion, via Twitter, that theater should be a safe space, many in the local theater community point out that theater and politics go back to the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, and even curtain-call speech has precedent.
  
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• Love you, hate your politics: Readers share postelection Thanksgiving plans

  23-11-2016 15:00
  
  “We all circle, hold hands and pray, and I don’t know how I can do that,” one woman said of her annual Thanksgiving dinner. Friends and relatives across the state say their relationships have changed since Trump’s election ... just in time for the holidays.
  
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• Love you, hate your politics: Readers share post-election Thanksgiving plans

  23-11-2016 15:00
  
  Friends and relatives across the state say their relationships have changed since Trump’s election ... just in time for the holidays.
  
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• Women for Trump Cabinet: Haley picked for UN, DeVos for Ed

  23-11-2016 13:05
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Injecting the first diversity into his Cabinet-to-be, Donald Trump selected two Republican women on Wednesday who had unflattering things to say about him during the presidential campaign: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the […]
  
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• Trump taps SC Gov Haley and charter school backer DeVos

  23-11-2016 13:05
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and prominent charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education, the first women selected for top-level administration posts in his new administration. Both Cabinet-level positions require Senate confirmation. While […]
  
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• Warren Beatty's Rules Don’t Apply Is Kind of a Mess... but You Won’t Mind

  23-11-2016 13:00
  
  Warren Beatty's Rules Don’t Apply Is Kind of a Mess... but You Won’t Mindby Ned LannamannTV may get all the shine nowadays, but old-fashioned movie-star charisma goes a long way. Case in point: Warren Beatty, who’s returned to movies after a 15-year hiatus. He wrote, directed, and stars in Rules Don’t Apply, a wholly fictitious movie about billionaire Howard Hughes (Beatty) that foregrounds a forbidden romance between two of Hughes’s employees, starlet-in-the-making
  
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• Tom Ford Returns with Nocturnal Animals

  23-11-2016 13:00
  
  Tom Ford Returns with Nocturnal Animalsby Marc MohanNocturnal Animals, fashion-designer-turned-director Tom Ford’s second film (and his first since 2009’s A Single Man) looks great, and the story is intriguing and disturbing. But the movie’s a downer, and it has the misfortune of showing up in theaters exactly when we really don’t need a downer—especially one about the emotional scars of rich, well-dressed white people.Ford’s a natural filmmaker, and with Hitc
  
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• The Hokey Mysticism of The Sea of Trees

  23-11-2016 13:00
  
  The Hokey Mysticism of The Sea of Trees by Julia RabanAokigahara, or Japan’s suicide forest, is a real place at the base of Mount Fuji where people go to die. It’s full of icy caverns, and the trees are so thick and the forest so vast that no sound can enter or escape. Dozens of bodies are discovered in it each year—but many remain tucked away in the forest, undisturbed, save for the passing of suicidal visitors and tourists obsessed with the macabre. In Wataru Tsurumui’s
  
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• She’s the Very First Eagle Huntress!

  23-11-2016 13:00
  
  She’s the Very First Eagle Huntress!by Suzette SmithThe Eagle Huntress looks amazing. The documentary’s images—featuring a grinning 13-year-old Aisholpan Nurgaiv as she holds a splendid eagle half her size—are the stuff of myths. I went in pumped up to see a girl-power/girl-falconer documentary with plenty of big, cool-looking birds, and I was not disappointed. First-time director Otto Bell accomplishes a level of visual beauty we associate with BBC nature specials or, ID
  
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• Liberal Rednecks Mosey On Up to Seattle for Some Comedy

  23-11-2016 13:00
  
  Liberal Rednecks Mosey On Up to Seattle for Some Comedy by Rich SmithTrae Crowder came to the fore of the internet's comedic consciousness when a series of "porch rants" starring his Liberal Redneck character went viral. In his most popular bit, Crowder stands shirtless in a sun-beaten ball cap and slams conservative arguments in support of North Carolina's transgender bathroom bill, all while using a language and cadence familiar to Southerners.He'd been doing stand-up for a while before t
  
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