Story time: Leave a voicemail about a book and tell a story of your own at Call Me Ishmael. Speaking of stories, non-fiction books about every American state. Some political uses of the popular phrase mistakes were made. And more than 10,000 people ate 7.86 tons of food (4,000 pounds of potatoes! 4,375 pounds of short ribs!) at a formal sorority dinner in Charlotte last night.
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