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Old 11-13-2008, 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by OneHeartOneWay View Post
My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite!
About the banana - I'm assuming a banana was a much more difficult thing to obtain in the 1800s? I mean, I've read enough 19th century American children's novels to know that an orange was considered a delicacy/awesome Christmas gift back in the day in many parts of America. So surely a ripe banana was even rarer? At least in Illinois?

Just guessing and wondering then what the context for the banana might be.

Historian much? lol
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