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My dad, who came from transplanted "hillbilly" stock of Arkansas and was the first person in his family to graduate high school and go to college, used to say that anyone who used a swear word simply demonstrated their lack of intelligence because there was always a better, more couth word available to use to get the point across most exquisitely. I have, to some extent, however, much to my chagrin, adopted some of the habits of my young adult children....

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