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The Unmitigated Gall

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3. Sweet Lord Almighty...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:16 AM

Jul 2021

What that day must have looked like. Kind a hard not to wax biblical. I read somewhere once that they did an experiment and found that temperatures in burrows five or more feet deep remained tolerable for our little mammal forebears while absolute hellfire swept the ground above and made charcoal of the creatures that hunted and ate them.

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