Perhaps a crash blossom...

[Wilson Gray]

for senior citizens still able to recall the term, "French leave."

"Terror Haven in Mali Feared After French Leave"

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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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