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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/885",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 885,
    "subject": "islands of the Commonwealth",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-02T00:27:44+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-02T00:27:44+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0060@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-02T00:27:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) islands of the Commonwealth",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nA previous letter to the list (I'm sorry but I don't remember when)\nasked how the Commonwealth could be in a South America geographically\nsimilar to the current continent when the Commonwealth is described as\nconsisting of an archipelago of islands to the south.  The answer is\nthat SA does have a long chain of many islands in the south, but it\nclosely follows the close, so the questioner probably wouldn't\nremember them or have noticed them just by casually looking in the\nfirst place.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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