Heard on local news: there were > it was

[Wilson Gray]

Local, white-male resident of Matha's Vineyard, MA, describing his
response to seeing from land a fire on a ferry:

"I alerted the authorities, just in case _it was_ more problems on the
boat than we thought."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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