"We started messing back around with each other."

[Wilson Gray]

Spoken by a thirty-ish black woman on the Judge Greg Mathis Show.

_Back_ in the case replaces _again_. But, you can't say,

"We started messing _again_ around around with each other"

nor can you say,

"We started messing around with each other _back_."


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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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