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If the saying is referring to Hell, Michigan, then it has already happened. In fact, the photo is from 2008, but it is not surprising that it has begun to circulate again, since I am fairly sure that Hell has frozen over this year, too\u2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3622,4510,4871,7386,9680,10824],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-freezes","tag-hell","tag-humor","tag-michigan","tag-proverbs","tag-saying"],"yoast_head":"\n
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