If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a t…

P. J. O'Rourke
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If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir. ✨ P.J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd
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If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir. ✨ P.J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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