Heard on The Judges (loss of reflexive)

[Wilson Gray]

Black woman relating a story about her boyfriend:

"He said: 'You buying all this stuff for _you[rself]_! Why don't you
buy something for me?!'"


-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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 -Sam'l Clemens

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