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“The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show” promises to combat the world’s devastation with campy magic and mirth that only a queer interpretation of Christmas can provide.

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Californians remember the environmental and economic devastation of past oil spills.

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Lucy Davies sees the devastation repossessions can have on a daily basis.

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Perhaps the prospect of this kind of emotional devastation gives you pause.

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And so the story returns, as it always does, to devastation: a creature who longed to break bread with humanity instead learns to starve himself of hope.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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