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|    Aidan Kehoe to All    |
|    Re: Bebe Moore Campbell died (27/11/2006    |
|    28 Nov 24 16:08:36    |
      From: kehoea@parhasard.net               Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:               > American author, journalist and teacher.        > Age 56. Brain cancer.        >        > "The interviewer asks if she can be intimate with anyone who can't speak       Black        > English:        >        > No. I can't. And the way I know is that with the very few white people whom       I        > have really good feelings for I don't turn the censor on. When I let my hair        > down that much, then I trust you and I accept you. I know you know I know        > what's grammatical."              Odd way to phrase this, as if white people never struggle with standard       English.               > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebe_Moore_Campbell              --       ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /       How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’       (C. Moore)              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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