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That a ship’s biscuit might yet see us through our circumnavigation of the globe is testimony to its shelf life, true, though your nonchalant doffing a bathrobe makes me think you’re also playing for keeps. That a ship’s biscuit might yet see us through may be traced back partly to Samuel Pepys and his time in the navy, partly to our weevil-sense it’s easier to chew when first softened behind the lower lip. That a ship’s biscuit might yet see us through from the time we weighed anchor at Pike’s Slip to our pretty much having learned the ropes vindicates our taking the longer view and persisting, pretty much, in the hope that a ship’s biscuit might yet see us through.
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