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DFW

(59,350 posts)

7. That is especially poverty-stricken

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #6)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 04:05 AM

Sunday

Statues of R.E. Lee were nothing unusual where I grew up in Virginia. On the other hand, without the publicity, maybe 20 people in the States would have known what these pitiful garden slugs were even up to. Probably more Nederlanders than Americans would have known. I’m in that country once a week, and speak the language. And yet, this is the first I’ve heard of it.