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2.82sLook, Dad! I found this book on our genealogy!
1.72sHey, Way to go, son!
3.87sHey, Look. Here's a picture of your great great-granddad, Osias Griffin.
1.83sHe owned one of the first dozen telephones.
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0.92sHello?
0.9sHello, Jonathan?
1.27sNo. What number are you CALLing?
0.9s7.
0.9sNo. This is 3.
1.58sOh, Sorry.
3.44sAnd his great grandpa was Thomas Griffin, a great philosopher.
2.83sThomas, would you please go look for a job?
1.97sWhy?
2.7sWow, that's cool! Go back even further, Dad.
1.7sOk. Settle down, spaz.
4.24sIn 1840, Nathaniel "Nate" Griffin used to groom horses.
1.47sWhat the hell?
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1.94sHoly crap! I'm black!
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1.73sBut i--i--I can't be black.
3.8sI gotta say, Peter, the man in this book does look an awful lot like you.