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  • I love people, and, being naturally sociable and not very particular, I have had a perfectly grand time making acquaintances with the high and the low and, the in-betweeners; and the sick and well, and the dear and the queer, and the ancestrals and up-comers, and the rich and the poor, and every other variety that grows; and now I am as familiar with most of the family histories as the oldest inhabitant.

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • There are different kinds of studies that try to prove our needs I was talking about our nutritional needs, not our ancestrals’ behaviour as hunters.

    The Pig & The Butcher « KN | KITSUNE NOIR 2010

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