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Fruits in Our Backyard

By Allan McDonald (Posted Aug 28, 2009)

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Hillary, another fruit has already fallen in our backyard!

Hillary, another fruit has already fallen in our “backyard”!

Allan McDonald is a Honduran cartoonist.  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).

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