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Watermelon - The Source Code, From Village to Dungeon to Canoe to Plantations
"Food carries history. It connects us with our ancestors, the land from which we've come," she says. "If i like watermelon, i'm going to eat watermelon, and i don't hear what anybody says about i." Herby hancock's song is quietly kind of like a theme song for me, Southerners say.
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