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From Ann Althouse:

Do you ever romanticize the caveman and think, yes, it might be all right to be a Neanderthal, and you then think of one modern product that you want so much that you can't even seriously contemplate the savage life anymore? For me it's Chapstick.

Posted at 21:38 on 08/23/2005 | permanent link

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John Hawks
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University of Wisconsin—Madison
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