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The Short Version: Association, Disordered

Posted at 2:19 PM on March 14, 2011 by Bill Morelock
Filed under: The Short Version

We're all poets at heart. With information lacking, the curious title of a lovely song floats more naturally, indelibly in our imaginations as a poetic will o' the wisp than as a logical reference to its gritty origin. Long live the buoyancy.


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