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Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>
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The listserv that takes flossing seriously! <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:28:14 -0800
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> In a message dated 12/8/2005 7:43:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>     Is anyone here familiar with the building and, quite
>     frankly, is it worth saving?  Some buildings are and some aren't.
>
> Ruth,
>
> It's way cool. Aside from the fact that it was designed by a great -
> it's an Egyptian revival number with a slight batter on the exterior
> walls and a monstrous cove at the cornice. I got no pix of it, but
> I'll try to find one. It's on the water's edge in Williamsburg. I'd
> throw one leg in front of the bulldozer for it...
>
> Twybil
>
>

Whose leg you gonna throw?

A friend whose family were railroaders was telling me the other day that
at family reunions as a kid he would freak because most of the men were
missing an arm. Go into the houses and there would be prosthetics
hanging on the walls.

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