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Shifting Population

Shifting population The foyer at the new hospital was full of women It was a cold day, and they wore coats, brown /grey short and squat they looked like toys sprung live and had to see a doctor promptly. Algarvian women tend to be short and after marriage grow sideways till they look as squares of flesh, but they are beautiful when young what they have in common though is a tongue they never stop talking and that is why men spend a lot of time in cafes drink wine and play cards. Once upon a time this was an Arab province but the beauty of the Semitic race didn`t stick, the Moslems brought their own women. The nearest I can compare them to are the Norwegian people of the north, who one day got, fed up of cold winds and no oranges, populated this place we now called the Algarve, and her people are fond of bacalao.

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