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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Folk trying to remember things sometimes tap the temples or clout the cranium as if to dislodge the errant information, though resting the forehead on the bunched fingertips of one hand does it for others. Or possibly the acorn could first have been picked up from someone with a w for r speech difficulty and eggcornishly interpreted:
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Choice! Better than the original.
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