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Oh, and dis one time—swear ta Elmer!—I heard she conned a duke outta his castle. True story, maybe. Exaggeratin’? Who cares! She’s da type ta pull it off, laughin’ all da way. Makes me cackle, doc, ‘cause she’s chaos—like me dodgin’ hunters. Whore’s my kinda gal—screw da rules, live loud. Eh, dat’s all, folks! What’s yer take, doc?

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The Statue of Liberty has seven spikes on her crown, and the star-shaped Fort Wood, on which the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is built upon, has eleven points. The Whore of Babylon sits on a scarlet beast which has seven heads and ten horns according to Revelation

I gotta mention the annual art fair on Central Plaza. The chaos, the colors, the wild ideas – it’s like one of those movie scenes from The Great Beauty when the city is both dazzling and rotten. Just beautiful and disgusting all at once. And oh, the irony, like real life.

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