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was really a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia\'s largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade (I believe the Arabs were willing to trade Vicodin, Percocet and Penicillin for cotton) as kidney stones and gangrene continued to vex Johnny Reb.

Garvin sure has some stones to mix "whiny" and "petulant" in reference to anyone who has suffered one of these bad boys; whose mine like appearance may have indeed inspired the Monitor and Merrimack:



Here\'s a close up. Redrum called it. A million knives slicing and dicing yer innards.



Nancy raises the interesting question.  When I strained my first stone (a humiliating act in itself even if no one was watching.  No one was watching, right?) after a week of saying she could no longer hold the pain of childbirth over me, I proudly showed her the jagged rock of pain.  She calmly went into our bedroom, pulled down the picture of our two beautiful children, held it next to my stone and said, "I win."

[jacketree]

was really a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia\'s largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade (I believe the Arabs were willing to trade Vicodin, Percocet and Penicillin for cotton) as kidney stones and gangrene continued to vex Johnny Reb.

Garvin sure has some stones to mix "whiny" and "petulant" in reference to anyone who has suffered one of these bad boys; whose mine like appearance may have indeed inspired the Monitor and Merrimack:



Here\'s a close up. Redrum called it. A million knives slicing and dicing yer innards.



Nancy raises the interesting question.  When I strained my first stone (a humiliating act in itself even if no one was watching.  No one was watching, right?) after a week of saying she could no longer hold the pain of childbirth over me, I proudly showed her the jagged rock of pain.  She calmly went into our bedroom, pulled down the picture of our two beautiful children, held it next to my stone and said, "I win."