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…. . . Ralph, a conjunction of Dürer and frolic, was not an acronym but merely a name, bestowed at birth by an inspired but nameless designer. It didn't stand for anything but itself, and no one (including the editors) was able to think of an exact and accurate series of items for such a compound term. Ralph was simply an English name with a long-standing…
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