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David Oliver ([personal profile] arollingstoner) wrote in [community profile] wickerpark 2014-04-27 07:19 pm (UTC)

"They can't all be dying of STDs," David reasoned. "Statistically, I'd think that sea battles and drowning would probably combine to take at least as many. Plus, you know, scurvy." Scurvy was historically the big killer of sailors. Which wasn't to say that most of them didn't have syphilis too, it was just that scurvy was probably going to do it's work before treponema palladium rotted your brain.

"My grandma's always shoving food down Leigh and my throats, plus my cousins whenever they're in town," he says. "Mostly cookies. She's a big one for cookies. Dad isn't sure she really knows how to make anything but a dozen variations on chocolate chip. Not that either he or my mom can talk." Adam and Karina were experts at calling out for delivery.

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