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You know, the first couple of weeks I lived in Jerusalem, I was constantly jarred by seeing kids who looked like they ought to be going to frat parties and getting stoned at concerts, instead patrolling the streets in fatigues and full combat weaponry.
But you get used to it, and eventually, you do become glad to see them.
Although it is still a little odd to be hanging out someplace, doing a little idle girl-watching, and realize that the hotties you're scoping are all packing assault rifles....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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