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No kidding. On Valentine\u2019s Day I got a package from a publisher, which evidently uses some kind of automated lettering system, and it just so happens that the letters showed up as \u201cG-O-D.\u201d Check it out by clicking on the image to get a biggrer size:
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\nThanks to Boaz for spotting the sender and to Chris Ridgeway for converting it into a .jpg file for me.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"