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Letter from Chip Northrup

Hapless Mussels

The hapless mussels didn’t want to come here. They were as happy as clams in Siberia — before they were Shanghai’d to the Great Lakes. They have no political advocates in Albany — so they get the blame for everything. Count the votes

Chip Northrup
Cooperstown

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