"But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.
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"Yes, but that was in a war. Do they still shoot each other over ladies?" I imagined a carpet of prostrate women, over whom shots rang out.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.
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