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"My great-grandfather was near the event when it happened and talked about it so much in later life that my father still has an aversion to molasses, which I've always found a tad excessive since it's not like he experienced the molasses-related trauma firsthand."

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"Sounds like a case of Post Treacle Stress Disorder."

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"That's just living in the UK."

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"He then testified against the Japanese, was sent to re-education by the communist Chinese, then eventually got released and wrote his autobiography. Truly a weird story."

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