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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
—Mark Twain, American writer and journalist, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Posted on October 2, 2001 at 11:45 AM

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