first hand experience (v)

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> i'm _not trying to collect_ these things

"Have no intention of collecting," as in BE?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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