Damsel > wrote in
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> Rusty > said:
>
>>We used to gaze at the pages of National Geographic and think,
>>"Look at those poor savages." Now our current generation seems to
>>be doing everything to look like them.
>
> There's a guy who works at one of the stores we patronize. He's
> very, very black. And he has orderly rows of raised bumps on his
> forehead. It looks really sharp! I keep planning on asking him
> where he's from, but I always chicken out. I *will* find out what
> those cool rows are all about, though.

I can tell you right now. They're ritual scarring.

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