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Thanksgiving Can Catch Fish Analysis
My uncle Alvin never listened to any of those commercials. The commercials that tell you that you can quit. He said that they were stupid, almost ludicrous, and utmost irrelevant.

When I was younger, I told him that one day, I was going to get him a great immense boat. One that he can catch fish by day, and look at the stars when night arrives. I said it would be a promise.

Through the years, he says that I still promise him that boat, he chuckles whenever he says it. A boat, he says, wouldn’t that be cool?

He started ingesting these pernicious fumes when he was 13 years old, buying more and more as the days progressed. He said he could stop whenever he wanted to. It wasn’t a problem, he says.

He checks his blood pressure a great

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