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What was the reason they gave it back? Too much upkeep?..............
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11/07/2014 8:02:07 AM PST
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Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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The matter of returning Alexandria/Arlington to Virginia was complicated, finance, national politics, state politics, and slavery all figured in the mix. Wikipedia has a decent
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