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I typed up something half wise, but realized halfway through that am too beholden to Dionysus tonight to be clever or coherent. So I'll just say that this is one of those parts of American history that makes me disbelieve in the lovely dream of all men and women being equal, leaving our former blood allegiances behind for something sweeter.