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28.7.11

STATUS MARKERS OF THE LOWER ORDERS.  The trailer hitch scrotum is not yet illegal in Florida but it might be public indecency in the Cradle of Secession.
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"Cold Spring Shops" was the name of the primary repair and car building facility of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company ... builders of trolley dining cars and the Christmas parade train ... perhaps I can be that creative too.

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