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The quiet sound is me gloating<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was surprised at the first sentence though. Are they still forcing us to change? (Are there “ministries”?) Don’t they know that our preference is genetic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quiet sound is me gloating. I was surprised at the first sentence though. Are they still forcing us to change? (Are there “ministries”?) 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