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  • For less than the price of a cup of coffee, you can help feed this poor ghosted orphling.

    December 21, 2007

  • Done.

    "Bein' a orphling, so to speak, owin' to my never 'avin' 'ad a father or a mother--as I knows on--there's nothin' that chains me to old England 'cept poverty."

    --R. M. Ballantyne, 1890, Charlie to the Rescue: A Tale of the Sea and the Rockies

    December 21, 2007

  • Where do you guys get your coffee?

    December 21, 2007

  • Wow, coffee and a legitimate citation! You really went the extra mile! May this word be unappreciated no longer.

    December 21, 2007