Breadfruit plants would be dug up in Tahiti-he'd tasted the strange fruit when a native had traded one for a string of glass beads-and then be transported to the West Indies.

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Her mother began thinking perhaps she'd been dealt a strange twist of fate.

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And now a strange liquid was seeping through the cut I'd made in the cake.

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But roaming the annals of early America, I'd discovered a world that was new and strange to me.

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