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What Kind of Tone Was That to Use With Me?

In 1783, an American revolutionary soldier was captured by the British and sent to a prison camp in the West Indies. Once he got there, he was given a slice of watermelon that was allegedly so mind-blowingly delicious that he held on to them until he made it back to America. Flash forward to 1840 when a farmer named Nathaniel Napoleon Bradford crossbred the West Indies melon with another species and created the Bradford melon. This melon was sweet, sometimes being compared to cotton candy, both in taste and in texture. It also had a thin, soft, easily peelable skin more akin to another Kirk-Kirbit.

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