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It’s not about sex, you pervert!

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Entering the dining room where a reception was being held for the new initiates, I overheard a group of Master Masons talking about sacrificing a pig on an altar. That freaked me out a little bit.

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“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for us; that is our only commitment to others.”

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Another major hurdle to overcome is the fact that Kennedy’s brain was not only damaged severely during his assassination, but the individual pieces were auctioned off and are hard to recover.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

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John F. Kennedy embodied the hopes and dreams of a generation, and like Supercop, he has many classic moments that play well as YouTube clips (“We choose to go to the moon”; the scene where Michelle Yeoh drives a motorcycle onto a moving train).

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Women are generally smaller than men, requiring less food and smaller clothes, and therefore using up fewer of the world’s natural resources.

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It’s basically sequel to that one about the cotton gin. There’s more Eli Whitney, if you’re into that. I’m still kind of weirded out by how his inventions helped slavery stay operational for years, and we’re just expected to let that go.

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I get closer and feathers float in the air like we’re all trapped inside a giant snow globe. I light another cigarette, and some girl harps to me that “This is a non-smoking park.” I loosen my tie and look over at this lunatic. “That’s fine,” I say, “Because the park isn’t smoking, I am.” I think everybody here is on drugs.

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If Junot Díaz and Garrison Keillor seem like an unlikely pair, it is mainly for extra-literary reasons which get more attention than they deserve…