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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:07:25 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: An observation
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- > Ruth, "Newfies" was OK, as long as you didn't preceed it with "goofy".
- > I really grew to like the Newfoundland people very much in the two
- > years I lived in Stephenville. They are a warm, generous people.
- >
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- Also immortalised by John Donne on viewing his beloved in
- her beatific form:
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- "Oh my America, my New Found Land!!!"
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- :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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- Pm
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