Heard on The Doctors: "I'm a native Savannian."

[Wilson Gray]

"_Been livin' here since I was one years old_."

Wait. What? Doesn't _native_ mean "born in a location" and not "been
living in a location since infancy"?


Spoken by an MD in the ER of the Savannah, GA's Memorial Hospital.

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-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.
-Mark Twain

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