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Dr Rebecca Menmuir

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Will run another 'Early Modern Latin in London' walking tour on Saturday 8th June, 10:00-12:30 - an exploration of the religious, literary, mercantile, and other types of Latin around the City of London. Completely free! Register below:

Early Modern Latin Walking Tour (City of London)

Explore London through its Early Modern Latin (16th-18th cs), the City of London’s best-kept secrets hidden in plain sight!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@CaitlynBBS The way this ramps up is very funny to me. “F***s a woman” (everyone nods) “In a BALLOON….” (murmurs) “One THOUSAND YARDS ABOVE THE EARTH!!” (screaming, whooping in the club)

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The dog (?) in the new Pompeii fresco is appropriately nervous about Paris kidnapping Helen.

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Has anyone done this because he literally went to horny jail @CSMFHT

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When you get to the end of the Bible and feel like the final chapter didn't quite do it for you

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It’s official - from September I will be joining Lincoln College, Oxford, as a Darby Fellow (Old and Middle English). I can’t believe it and I can’t wait!

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Although they’re not on strike this week, a reminder that your Oxford non-permanent tutors in English get paid for the hour they teach and nothing else! Marking essays and preparing for classes runs on ✨goodwill✨ @OxfordUCU

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Well, I passed my viva with no corrections, got my leave to supplicate, and now my thesis is on its way to the Bodleian!! Am I now allowed to be called Dr?

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In personal news, I got engaged recently! 5 years ago we met as baby Oxford medievalists ✨ we were even on the same MSt scholarship a couple of years apart so as far as I’m concerned it was institutionally preordained Pics: first date scene vs engagement scene

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Why does downloading the Augustine Gospels as a pdf feel illegal

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Augustine Gospels is also - fully digitised - freely available online - downloadable as a pdf

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WhatsApp pictures automatically saving to your camera roll is mad because my Mum happened to send me pics of the puffins she saw in Iceland as I was taking pics of a manuscript

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Happy #fragmentfriday ! Scrapbookers take note ( @EtonCollLibrary MS 220)

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#ExtinctionRebellion on Lambeth Bridge - immediately moving when ambulances/fire brigades etc need to get past!

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parve, liber! Go, little book, my litel tretyse, without me, to the examiners. I submitted my PhD today 😵

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OK, I guess I've formally accepted now, so - as of this September, I'm going to be a @BritishAcademy_ Postdoctoral Fellow at @QMULsed !

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@femmesnufkin @bestofnextdoor idk it’s been 2000 years I don’t think he needs a helping hand

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Tempted to write a book on the Heroides just to be able to use this as the cover image (Bodleian, MS Canon Class Lat 4, 15th c)

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Have you ever heard of AMARC (Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections)? I hadn’t! They offer small grants to help with conferences, visit and access manuscripts, etc - postgrads, postdocs and ECRs especially encouraged to apply.

Grants

AMARC aims ‘to promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives of all periods in libraries and other research collections in Great Britain and Ireland’. AM…

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He looks like a womble. I can't handle this

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ECHIDNA NEWS! Scientists have captured the first images of Attenborough's long-beaked #echidna . It was first described from a flattened skin with a crushed skull collected in 1961 but has not been seen since. This footage proves the population survives.1/2

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Great job at digitising this one mate

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Where better for a cathedral cat to curl up than among the tapestries in the gift shop? @WellsCathedral1

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Number 1 singles The end of Sir Gawain and the in 1965 Green Knight 🤝

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Word knows me too well at this point.

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The @britishlibrary website has been down for an alarmingly long time now. Not to conspiracy-theorise but it happened just as they digitised all those Chaucer manuscripts...... his ghost may be upset

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Happy #buynothingday 🌍 my New Years resolutions were to stop using amazon and to only buy sustainable fashion, and I’m really proud of myself for sticking to both. Preach over.

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! Today is my first official day as a Junior Lecturer at @RUGEnglish

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They say never meet your heroes, but if you do, at least colour match them

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Opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tours 879 (12th c) - I love the precision of the vertical border and the scribbles of the horizontal

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The talented, clever, gorgeous @EleanorMayBaker HANDED IN HER THESIS TODAY!!!!! I took some representative pics. She is the best. End tweet

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The very best Valentine’s gift a girl could hope for: the Oxford Tube driver fleece 😭🤩

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H E L P. I wrote 'it could be a lewd workshop' instead of a 'led workshop' in an email.

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We (Charlotte Gauthier @FaraiUnVers , Caroline Spearing and I) have been awarded National Lottery Heritage Funding to fund our heritage project at @StBartholomews ! The project, 'What Makes a Londoner?', explores modern London identities through the lives of Londoners 1540-1640.⬇️

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No, no, NO, someone just told me that when I say "that time works for me to meet - it's in my diary" to an American, they imagine me excitedly writing about it in my personal journal. This can't be true

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Excellent mini exhibition at @bodleianlibs on fakes! Here’s a medieval French chronicle with a miniature added in the 17th/18th c. I wouldn’t call an addition/supplement a forgery, except that it was perhaps intended to disguise the book as a copy for Philip VI? Very interesting!

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In another life I am the local bookbinder

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Huge, huge props to the @bodleianlibs Scan and Deliver service for pretty much saving my degree right now

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OK classicists and/or medieval Latinists: tips for structuring 'doing a little bit of Latin every day'? Resources, structure, time allocation?

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Recording a presentation for college is going great I can DEFINITELY say my own name properly thanks for asking x

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Edinburgh is home to many famous artworks. None have captured my heart like this sculpture of birds. The pack leave one behind and trundle off. One forlornly looks across to his abandoned companion.

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‘That is all’, in St Giles Cripplegate.

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Enjoying working through CT Hadavas' Medieval Latin Reader after learning of its existence through a BMCR review. Good for medieval Latinists looking for something to keep things fresh!

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POV you’re playing video games with Ovid

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Once again thinking about my favourite dissertation title ever:

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Dr Rebecca Menmuir

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My article is now out in The Journal of Medieval Latin! ‘Tracing Ovid’s “Best” Line in the Middle Ages’, in which we hear from two clerics who can’t decide on the greatest hits, so get Ovid to settle the matter. Message if you’d like a PDF.

The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 33

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New volume of the The Journal of Medieval Latin Vol 33 @Brepols @RebeccaMenmuir

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It absolutely baffles me that there are manuscripts like this on sale rather than in a library

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Up for sale: two extremely interesting and previously unrecorded folios (12th c?) of Boethius' "Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos". Unfortunately no information on the binding in which they were used. #fragmentology

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#ChaucerLifeRecords talk is really hammering home that if you want to study medieval lit you also have to be a medieval legal expert, fluent in French, Latin, Middle English, be an expert in philosophy, the schoolroom, classical civilisation, Arabic influences, etcetc

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The way I cannot WAIT for vol. 1 of this to come out! Finally (for English speakers, at least), a translation of the Ovide moralisé!

The Medieval French Ovide moralisé - Boydell and Brewer

First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages.The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France i...

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Received an exceptional spam email today.

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Partner on medieval poets who get compared to Chaucer in their later reception

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12th century twitter would be like 'contemptus mundi? More like contemptus MONDAY am I right 🤪'

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An unexpected find in the crypt of St Bride’s: Caxton’s Metamorphoses!

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In some nice news, I passed my Confirmation of Status! I was lucky enough to have it face to face a few weeks ago. The two examiners were kind, interested and critical in a really good way, and now I have some actionable suggestions to make the diss better ✨

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I have never experienced steps more awkward to walk up and down. Calibrated to be a few inches off the normal height of stairs.

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Judson Boyce Allen on being a manuscript beginner at @bodleianlibs ; those who have done the Ox medieval MSt may find this familiar…

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Two (!) years ago I was awarded my DPhil. I submitted in deep 2020 lockdown (pic 1), Viva'd online (no pics, which is telling!), and graduated in absentia (pic 2), so it still doesn't feel real or 'over'. But I'm really proud of it even though it's getting mercilessly edited.

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Would Middle English Wordle be chaotic or inspired?

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I had no idea a well-timed “No such issue for Kermit the Frog.” could have me gasping for breath-laughing

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Someone from @piersmorgan 's staff asked if I would like to come onto Pier's show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to talk about the state of his attire. Since he invited feedback, I thought I'd do a thread comparing his style to menswear icon Kermit the Frog. 🧵

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Very exciting new purchase!!

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The best thing I have done so far in my degree, or maybe ever, is name every manuscript picture I've taken with the exact MS title and folio number. LOVE past me

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Today I finished doing a revise and resubmit which I'm really hopeful about for a journal which gave me some incredibly useful advice. In the midst of a lot of rejections I'm getting for the future (please, someone, hire me), I'm proud of this little thing

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Can’t tell which is a cooler object to stumble upon, Caxton’s Ovid or SNAKE BENCH

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An unexpected find in the crypt of St Bride’s: Caxton’s Metamorphoses!

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You know the book is going to be a rollercoaster when it starts like this…

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When I find myself in times of trouble, Father (c)Ovid comes to me, Speaking words from exile,

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Excited to be back in Oxford for a term of medieval teaching 🎉 including, for the first time, a class on the criminally underrated Rolle! The world needs a gritty “Hermit of Hampole” adaptation

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Rafael no

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@John_Attridge (Same principle but I have read the wrong book) I liked how she set up the Rosenbergs as central characters from the start

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A treasure trove today! Just look at this opening to the Heroides! ( @bodleianlibs Canon Class Lat 4)

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Chaucer never mentioning the 1381 Uprising or the plague or literal chroniclers spending half a line on important events:

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@Karm4Chameleon When writers, who, in any field, are chronicling their culture, are avoiding an enormous, world-changing topic en masse, that is a symptom of something going very wrong.

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In a London pub over the weekend. Informed that before it got taken over by a chain, last order bell would be rung and they’d come around with bits of cheese on cocktail sticks for the road. How have we sunk so low that we’ve lost the tradition of LEAVING CHEESE?!

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Approaching the new Oxford term like

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It’s the first day of my new postdoc today! To prepare last week, I went to Oxford, sat in the Weston, and contracted tonsillitis

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Sneak peek/first look now online of mine and @HJP_Armstrong ’s essay cluster in @postmedieval ! “Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval” - you can read our Intro open access below. It was so fun to write & work on this! Full cluster coming c. June 2024.

Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval

postmedieval -

link.springer.com

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I love images of Chaucer because it always looks like he's going ‘Who, me???’

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It's proofing time! I'm incredibly proud of this one. The revision process was gruelling but really worthwhile - a LOT of suggestions/corrections from three reviewers but all justified and overall helpful.

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"I need this book a lot and you can't view it online! Maybe I should just buy it for mysel-"

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I am TRYING, LinkedIn

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Southbank book stalls are becoming insanely targeted

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#MedievalTwitter , please do circulate details of the New Medieval Literatures Scholars of Colour Essay Prize. - Designed to recognize work that contributes to a more inclusive discipline of Medieval Studies. Next closing date 6 Jan 2024. More details:

New Medieval Literatures Scholars of Colour Essay Prize

english.web.ox.ac.uk

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Nice way to end 2020 - found out that my bf took photos of the precise moment I submitted my DPhil. Clutteredness reflects my thesis brain by the end...

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On my way to the shrine of Thomas Becket at @britishmuseum . The northern line closed so am walking. May stop at a pub in Southwark on the way to get embroiled in a tale telling competition

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@ucu @CWUnews Mick Lynch @RMTunion : “people ask why we don’t affiliate with Labour. Where are the Labour frontbenchers right now?” And “Where were you in the action of 2022?”

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Over the past week I’ve been reading the Name of the Rose and also working on a medieval commentary. Turns out the whole plot of the Rose (no spoilers) hinges on something the medieval commentator is obsessed with and I’ve never felt my life align more

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Partner has a work party where the theme is spooky Tudor, so naturally he’s chosen to go as John Skel(e)ton

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No No No At any time WARN

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The catalogue will be back, and it looks like manuscripts will be available to call up!

British Library

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On Monday, we will take a major first step in the restoration of our services for Readers and researchers. Our Chief Executive, Sir Roly Keating, shares more details in a new blog:

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. @qm_ucu is on strike so I will not be crossing the digital picket to tweet about work, including #Kzoo22 . QM's principal is still threatening 100% deductions for not rescheduling teaching-hence 10 more days of action at QM. This will be followed by a nationwide marking boycott.

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Much of February has been preparing my edited volume for submission, on ideas of authenticity in medieval & early modern literature. The chapters that contributors have submitted are AMAZING-I am so excited for the press to read them and hopefully to be out in the world soon-ish!

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Do you ever request a book in advance at the library and stare at it wondering why you called it up?

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I found the auto-transcript button for my lecture recordings and I'm losing it

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"TANGLING WITH THE CLASSICS" A CFP for @IMC_Leeds #IMC2023 from the wonderful Jackie Burek and me, deadline 9/9/22. We're really keen to represent a range of classical reception - from Early to Late medieval - any ancient language and their receptions in any language - (1/2)

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If you were one of the 70 odd students in the collection where I loudly dropped the clock....... sorry (time slips away from us all?)

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You ever feel proud about transcribing a really difficult manuscript folio and then find out Mr. Scholar in the 1890s already did it and you have to cite them? What's the scope to add 'I did it myself though' in a footnote

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Yesterday I got charged at by some local cows, which was genuinely a bit scary. Once I was over a nearby fence I took a picture to show how threatening and scary they were but - they are ANNOYINGLY cute and photogenic

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Some October London sun ☀️

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Medievalists! found the gloss 'robardelli' in a 13th-c manuscript from Paris. In the context of the poet describing shepherds frolicking in the fields. All other glosses are in Latin. Please help! Robardelli is a name and robarollus is a robe merchant but both seem unlikely.

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@John__Phipps See also: churches

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More terrific Latin-English 16th c translations: 'nauseam' is translated as 'wamblynges about your stomakes'. Wamblynges!

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!!!!!!!!!! First the Appendix Ovidiana, then the 3-vol Ovide moralisé, now Bersuire’s Ovidius moralizatus… the time of Ovidiana is NOW

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We are excited to announce the publication of THE MORALIZED OVID, an influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s stories, translated into English for the first time. Get your copy:

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Oh, yes. Unrepentant Durham posting begins.

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