Botany

[Wilson Gray]

OT: By coincidence, my _street_ > "skreek" friend is a native of Holly
Springs, NC. I never expected the name of his hometown to show up here
for any reason.

-Wilson

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> An assault was reported yesterday in Holly Springs NC, having taken =
> place at an address on "Apple Drupe Way" (I had to look up "drupe"...a =
> class of fruit having a peeling, succulent center, and a pit or seed, =
> such as an apple).
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> Bill Palmer
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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