"There's obviously a lot of things in this movie that are not mainstream storytelling and there were times when I went, 'Gulp, I hope people get it, '" Ross says.

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After Patalashvili gave a long and heartfelt toast, I took a deep gulp of the stuff.

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Get me a Big Gulp and I'd drink to that.

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The ground was soft and swampy, fallen tree branches lay over the paths, I heard the obsessive self-hypnotizing cicadas, the gulp of the bullfrogs, and knew with an animal sense only lately developed in me that there were some four-footed creatures about.

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To get the dad's perspective, I spoke with Brandon Wheeler, a father to three girls (gulp) who lives in Atlanta.

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