Snacking the snack out of snackable

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whats with labels. whats the comfort in things we can label. why do labels seem familiar. the reason is probably in the way we overcome the sameness with difference. trading along the margins of the familiar, the little sidestep into the less familiar. labels evolve yet labels hardly change.

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