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As the very recent victim of a fall that resulted in a series of bone breaks (7 of them), I got a real laugh out of your “Ow, fuck! Ow, fuck! Ow, fuck!” In fact, my ability to still groan out several hundred more "fucks!" helped my rescuers realize that "Oh, this guy is probably going to live."

Now STOP it. It hurts to laugh and I'm still on the good drugs.

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Ow fuck indeed. Please get better soon.

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Well I bought your book for my grandkids, but this brilliant piece is one they’ll know about anyway - I told them all of us had the same “yiayia” - she was black and born in Africa.

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They named her Lucy because they don't want you to know, but the missing links had LSD! She didn't fall! She jumped because she thought she could fly! (We have conspiracy theories around everything else, so why not about Lucy?)

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Had to keep one of our friends away from windows in the 70s...

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Did they find her diamonds?

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Well, it's a conspiracy theory, so YOU get to decide if, and by whom, they were found!

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Looking at Lucy's skeletal remains indicates that she had some serious trauma at the end of her life. I wonder why there were no other remains like hers in the same general area. It would have been interesting to piece together members of her group (tribe).

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Sounded Misogynistic. Never heard a description like this for similarly small brained male skeletons...

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I haven’t written about any early male hominids, but if the sex was male you can be assured the commentary would have been the same. I’m with John regarding the eye rolling.

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New? What if I was? I was critiquing the jokes by men, not the story, which I know well. BTW at almost 80, I can detect the underlying currents of that attitude I refer to. Free speech, remember? Get used to us.

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Ow, fuck! I just rolled my eyes so hard that they're stuck looking out the back of my head.

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Are you new here? 😂

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