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We (Still) Don't Say That

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How to Write a Novel

Nelly has an inner novelist. She writes up a manuscript and sends it off to publishers, but gets he resounding. So she starts this consulting agency where i can help people learn how to write. One day at a press conference someone asks her: Do you offer nigger services? It's one thing to know that word in france; it's another to hear it said to you. Nelly knows this is the word for ghost rider. But after talking to black and white people in france, when it's used to day, it's much more like our n word in the us.

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