Implore your favorite deity, plus the devilMy city is surrounded by a dyke
because we're on an island below sea level
[BC is shaped like a leg starting to kneel down. A rectangle with a bend in the middle.]
to help you avoid flooding
(Another way of describing BC's shape is to say it looks like a broader version of California)
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? On DanceForum for ballroom dancers, there's a word game where you change one letter and then rearrange them into a new word. Yesterday it went from lamed to gleam to large, but sometimes a word will sit for days because no one can think what to do with it
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