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Blogly angst

Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Sacha Chua
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Hands, a sketch by Dominique Cimafranca

Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we think it should, but then
that could be because it has greater things in store for us than we
could imagine.

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- Sacha Chua You can use M-x locate-library to find a library. It looks like it's part of the Emacs distribution under the lisp/ directory. – 2018-08-20 Emacs news
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