Thanksgiving Fiction Special: The Thirty-Seven Marble Steps
It Could Happen Here
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I'd Be Mayflower Killjoy. Or Mayflower, Oh, That's a Bop.
According to the myth that we all hear, the heroic indigenous people of a nearby nation, the Wampanoag, plus a plucky fellow named to Squantum, who history remembers by the nickname of white guy gave him, Squanto. They show up and he's like, hey, buds, here's some food and here's some knowledge. And he teaches them the basics of how not to die in North America. But even despite all this help, half of the pilgrims died that winter. So critical support for winter for killing half the pilgrims. If it had killed all of them, maybe the world would be a better place.
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