[Ads-l] First-ever court-ordered pronoun?

[Galen Buttitta]

One of the best responses I've seen on this list, I think. Zing!

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 18:40, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> That's what happens when you ask the courts to get involved in the creation
> of a pronoun...
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> DanG
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> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:38 PM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
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