We report: later on, it starts pouring, but only after the sun has really finished setting. Our expert confirms it; the sun is below the horizon, and we are even a few paces into nautical twilight by the time any raindrops can be felt. We are completely taken by surprise.

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For years a Soviet man walks past the newsstand, picks up Pravda, scans the front page, and puts it back. One day the newsagent finally asks him, comrade, what are you looking for? “The obituaries.” He gently says, my good comrade, those are not on the front page. “The one I’m interested in is.”

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I worked in a mall kiosk through college, and I still have people who ask me "Where do I know you?" 25 yrs later. When my kid started school I recognized fellow parents I'd watched them date and hold hands every Friday night for years. It was my own little panopticon.

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We went for a hike in the woods and we saw a big beautiful barred owl!! It was hunting; we saw it fly down and up again into the tree, and initially thought it was a hawk before we saw its head. I've never seen an owl in the wild, I'm thrilled. It was massive.

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The reason the anti-abortion conservatives needed (and I mean NEEDED) to get rid of the "risk to life and health" exception to anti-abortion laws was that EVERY PREGNANCY risks life and health. Every. One.

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