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thanks. good writing. bananas are the kind. there's a lot of varieties... here's another article you might like. https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/06/banana-mangante-samuel-zemurray-rich-cohens-the-fish-that-ate-the-whale.html who was engineering the coups and the juntas in Honduras 100+ years ago? this guy banana sam. they don't mention the drug running along with bananas, because this is like a pride piece, but you can read about that elsewhere...

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Thanks for sharing! Fun read.

"That’s where he saw his first banana: golden-green, piled in the wares of a vagabond peddler. Soon after, charmed by this hint of paradise, he headed to the Gulf, looking for his own supply" --- what a time to be alive!

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