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"I got mine and screw you!" Boy, what a Pandora's box of reflections of mine you blasted open there, of my malignant authoritarian mother's "code!" Born a Bircher and died a Birther, she never used it: and it was a common slogan of hers: against the rich. She used it against me, as a warning I must not be selfish. A version was used against students of hers who didn't think they deserved to be graded so hard: "I made it with my two hands!" Definitely against "dirty, lazy hippies." But the rich (aristocrats) were the source of all the great things: palaces and commerce and jobs.... In the common meme now, she always "punched down." Thanks for the memories, sort of....

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