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( The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be   )
( mentioned with                                                )
( commoner things.  It is chief of the world's luxuries, king   )
( by the grace of God                                           )
( over all the fruits of the earth.  When one has tasted it, he )
( knows what the                                                )
( angels eat.  It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took;  )
( we know it because                                            )
( she repented.                                                 )
(                 -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" )
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