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One_Life_To_Give

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12. From 1 data point?

Reply to Betty Karlson (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 08:58 PM

Jun 2015

Don't think you can conclude much more than the single instance. Not without some supporting data to indicate such. That would be like some future aliens discovering Barney Frank was a Senator and concluding that the US was a totally Equal Country. IMHO

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