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Old 12-05-09, 05:32 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post
What he meant was that if the choice is having a dangerous job or starving, by all means go with the dangerous job, though a non-dangerous job will be preferable. August never proposed that kids should starve. That kind of reverse comment is called sarcasm.
Thank you Steve. That was exactly what I meant and all that I meant. It's difficult to believe that even with a language barrier anything more could have been read into it.
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