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  "thread": {
    "id": 823,
    "subject": "just the mervrow thing",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-04-18T21:16:04+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-19T07:23:53+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0330@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "shannon wilde",
        "address": "swilde_99 at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-18T21:16:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) just the mervrow thing",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "um, I seem to recall a reference somewhere (erudite\nones, help) of Dutch seamen taking \"sea wives\" for\ntheir extended journeys of exploration and trade,\nports and tropical isles not always being convenient. \nSo the term \"mervrow(frow, etc.) came into use as a\nnot-particularly pejorative term.  After all, these\nweren't just casual fling type relationships, and they\nserved more than one vital function, deserving of\nrespect in their own right, plus of course the usual\nstatus of captain's lady.  If anyone can back me up,\ni'd be most grateful, but i feel pretty sure of this. \n Tottergrass"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0331@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "address": "areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-19T07:23:53+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) just the mervrow thing",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0330@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "um, I seem to recall a reference somewhere (erudite\nones, help) of Dutch seamen taking \"sea wives\" for\ntheir extended journeys of exploration and trade,\nports and tropical isles not always being convenient. \nSo the term \"mervrow(frow, etc.) came into use as a\nnot-particularly pejorative term.  After all, these\nweren't just casual fling type relationships, and they\nserved more than one vital function, deserving of\nrespect in their own right, plus of course the usual\nstatus of captain's lady.  If anyone can back me up,\ni'd be most grateful, but i feel pretty sure of this. \n Tottergrass"
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          "text": "Fascinating - and given the general permeation of Dutch\nculture by things maritime, more than believable. \n\nAl\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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