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Ozarks at Large Stories

A Very Valentine's Militant Grammarian

KUAF | By Katherine Shurlds

Published February 14, 2018 at 12:55 PM CST

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, brings us words of love. Words of love you may not have heard before.

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