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I'm also not middle-class, black, latina, Muslim, Canadian, white American (in the sense that yes, I am fairly amelanistic and chiefly though not entirely of European descent, but my cultural upbringing has very little in common with that of your average WASP) ...
i should have read your letters kenscholes 2009
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I bought my first snake -- an amelanistic cornsake whom I named Eve -- this past winter and I absolutely recommend it.
mrissa: Definitely not slimy mrissa 2010
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Similarly, when you hear antonyms such as apolitical, nonpartisan, bipartisan, or even the new and truly ludicrous post-partisan, your heart thrills with warmth and affection, just as it would if you were a racist and you heard the words Nordic, Anglo-Saxon, or amelanistic.
Gammerstang commented on the word amelanistic
is a pigmentation abnormality characterized by the lack of pigments called melanins, commonly associated with a genetic loss of tyrosinase function. Amelanism can affect fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals including humans.
July 7, 2018