May 05, 2008
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Night camp:
Wal-Mart parking lot, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
Persistent and Ineradicable Instinct
Whenever we have a strong and persistent and ineradicable instinct, we may be sure that it is not original with us, but inherited -- inherited from away back, and hardened and perfected by the petrifying influence of time.
Mark Twain, autobiography