Heard on Natty Gee: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=are seen as threatening and _confronting_ by others."

[Wilson Gray]

wherein "confrontational" is expected. Prolly a tip of the slung.

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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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