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trof

(54,256 posts) Wed Nov 5, 2014, 08:59 PM Nov 2014

I have rended my garments and donned sackcloth and ashes.

My underwear is a hair shirt.
(Amazon, $39.95)
I have knocked out my front teeth with a stone.
(An ancient Hawaiian custom of mourning.)
I will wail tonight.
Politics.
Bah, humbug.