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Farewell, dear friends... TrueBlueMajority, Hunter, Jay Cuasay, elfing, are gone.
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Farewell, dear friends... TrueBlueMajority, Hunter, Jay Cuasay, elfing, are gone.
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	In ancient attics where shutters on windows are opened to the moon and stars while the chimneys of the city smoke below and fog curls around the gates.
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	Dancing a hornpipe on the slanting deck and singing of treasure to be buried while porpoises play in the sea beside the ship whose skull and crossbones flap in the breeze
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	In the Blue Boar pub at the big table next to the window singing ballads with the minstrel while waiting for Robin Hood to join you
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