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Old 01-26-2003, 08:25 AM   #13
chrisinhouston
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When I was a child, my grandmother who had grown up in China from the 1890's-1920's used to tell us to eat every grain of rice on our dinner plates or for each grain left we would have a "madza" on our face. I didn't find out till I was older that "madza" is the Chinese term for the mark of small pox.

God, she was a strange women.
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