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Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

Frederick Douglass
Men, Fog, Blue
Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.