January 13, 2015 • 15 mins
Mysterious things are washing up on shore. Tjipetir Tiles are washing up all over Europe. Two mysterious crates found floating off the coast of Florida--one filled with balloons. This one is still unexplained, but I've got an idea....
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Thinking Sideways Information. It's a mystery short stories of things
we simply don't know the answers to. This week with
a very special episode of Thinking Sideways Short, we're gonna
(00:25):
do short short. Yeah, we're gonna talk about a couple
of little mysteries that are just kind of kind of
too short to actually spin out into a whole hour
long show. So we get a cover cover two really
interesting topics and then categorized, and we're gonna categorize from
the two of them as things that go bob in
the water, things that go bob bob in the water.
(00:47):
First of all, all, I'm gonna mangle the pronunciations of this.
It's the tip of tier blocks, and I'm sure that's
not the way it's supposed to be. It starts with
a T and a jay. I'm just gonna tipotier blocks. Yeah,
have no idea on this. Yeah, these rubber these weird
rubber oblong rectangular blocks with rounded corners, and they have
(01:07):
cast into them. They had the the word and I'm
going to spell it out T G I P E
T I R, which turns maybe the T is silent.
Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's Jupiter or maybe it's Jitpiter.
I don't know. Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's maybe they're
like the tiles Jupiter. You never know, Like in Welsh,
(01:29):
for example, you know and Welsh, if you have two
l's following each other, it changes to the first L
changes to sound. So like there's a town called Clan
didn't know, Clon didn't know, which is a coastal town.
It's starts with two L so it's end. Didn't know.
It's like, languages are weird. I don't even try, don't
How do you keep all of that? Yeah, I've been,
(01:52):
I've been the crime didn't know. It's a it's an
interesting town. So but back to our thing. So, these
things have been washing up on the shore is of
northern Europe now for a while now. Lots of people
have been collecting them, and a lot of people were
wondering what exactly these things were, where they come from.
And this is actually not so much of a mystery.
It turns out that these things are these things are
(02:14):
actually produced in it was a Pakistan, No, Indonesia, that's right, Yeah, Indonesia.
They were produced in Indonesia a long time ago though apparently, Yeah,
there's a there's a plantation. These things are this this
place chip. The name that's in there is the side
of a nineteenth century rubber plantation in Indonesia, which is
where these things were come from. And apparently they're also
(02:37):
not rubber. They made it something called gutta percha Gutta perca,
which is a substance that comes from a tree as
native to Malaysia, and it's pre day's plastic and it
was used for all kinds of stuff for for installation,
waterproof coating and stuff like that, Teddy Bear's noses, bookbindings,
hot air balloons, and it was a very useful thing.
(02:57):
So lots of it was produced in Indonesia, loss of
it was shipped all over the world. And you would
ship it in bricks, right, yeah, I mean it would
it packs nice and compactly in a in a nice
little brick form. Right. And when were they When were
they being produced, I'm sure well into the twentieth century,
but it was in the nineteenth century. Well yeah, but
I mean, but I'm sure they were still producing them
in the twentieth century because they were still shipping them around. Yeah,
(03:20):
because they were using them for in submarines and stuff
like that, so that would make sense. Yeah, there's there's
if you go out there and do a little good
one and you'll find all kinds of pictures of these
things washed up all over the place. People there are
people that collect them. But this is not quite a mystery.
They think that's it's not totally clear, but it's believed
that this mystery has been solved. Somebody named Tracy Williams
(03:43):
in Britain was finding these things and she uh did
a little bit of research on and started got a
little bit obsessed about the whole thing. And yeah, we've
all been there. Yeah, and I've never done that. Yeah yeah,
And and she and and got her name out there
and started reading submission from people who found these slabs
in England, Shetland, Norway, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Germany and
(04:06):
on and on and on Europe. Yeah, mostly Europe, actually
as far as out there as Spain. Yeah, but never
not like America. I don't think so. I've never seen
any you haven't, you know, I haven't seen anything. So
some people actually theorize that these things had carried and
been carried in the Titanic, and that perhaps some of
these things actually were from the Titanic, but it's believed
(04:29):
actually that no, it wasn't the Titanic. This person Williams
was informed by somebody that there was a Japanese cargo
ship called the miya Okay hanging like spelled mariu like
the cat. This was sunk by the Germans in World
(04:49):
War One, that was carrying a whole lot of these
gutter perket balls. Yeah. The British government believes that this
ship is probably the source of the blocks that are
washing up now. And I think the reason for that
is is that somebody has actually been trying to salvage
that ship and so doing so you disturbed the wreck
and all this stuff comes floating out because they are seeing. Yeah,
(05:11):
they're going to open up a hatch and they all
come rushing out. That would make a lot of sense.
And why they're showing up like now, show up now, yeah, exactly,
because it's been down there a long time. Um. Yeah,
they would have been washing up a lot sooner. Yeah,
So they just sat at the bottom of the sea
for a long time. So they were on the Miyazaki Maru.
(05:32):
Miyazaki Maru, which was a Japanese carrying Indonesia. That's cool. No,
it's kind of interesting. I mean, I really hope that
some of them will float this far. Yeah, i'd like
one if you have one and you listen to our
show and you want to send us one as a gift.
The best thing about one of those ones would make
(05:52):
an awesome coaster because because no matter how drunk you are,
you're not going to miss your coaster. That's true. Well
that was that was That was a listener's suggestion, wasn't that?
I was suggested by Linda. That's Linda with a y.
Thanks that They're great, great little story. Sorry we couldn't
stretch it out into a full episode. You guys have
(06:12):
any other theories that you'd like to expand the alien
But you know, I mean, as I think we've we
all know things that float in the ocean, they float
a long way. Um. What was I know we were
talking about this before we started is what is the
name of those toys that I told you about? Yeah?
(06:34):
There they were bath toys, rubber duckies. Cargo ship dropped
a couple of cargo containers overboard, and evidently one of
the concidentally which it was, it was you know, that's
just kind of appalling. How many containers go overboard. Imagine
imagine the damage that would do your your boat if
you're just cruising along and you hit one of those
(06:55):
random things floating in the ocean. Well, I think these
things sank because honously it was ruptured because it led
out all of its cargo, which was all of these
bath toys that were rubber duckies and alligators and stuff.
And for the next fifteen years, people would randomly on
the beach find him. And it wasn't just in the Atlantic.
These things were making their way or the Pacific. It
(07:17):
started the Pacific and they were making their way over
to the Atlantic and floating everywhere things like that. Like,
I'm amazed at these blocks haven't gone farther, to be honest,
that's the one thing that I was. I was surprised
is they're only found on that one coast of the
European coast. Yeah, well, you never know. I mean, that's
that's the first place they' hitting. It might be at
(07:38):
a whole the whole bunches of them that are all
over the ocean that still haven't washed up on shore.
They headed off to other parts. You know, they're heading
off to the east coast of the US god knows where.
So yeah, keeping I keep an eye peeld on your beach. Yeah,
you're friendly, local neighborhood, and then send them to us. Yeah,
well you had more than one of these. Yeah, yes,
(07:59):
this is not going to be that tiny of a
shorty we got. We got another mystery to talk about.
This happened. This mystery had happened. In nineteen sixty seven,
the U. S. Coast Guards found a crate that had
a wooden crate had seven inflated yellow balloons inside of it,
floating off the coast of Florida. Well it is I
feel like it gets even more like an eighties song. Yeah,
(08:22):
an eighties song. Yeah, that's the crate was marked in English,
made in the USSR, and it was addressed to the
Institute of Mineral Resources of Cuba. So they were sending
in balloons. Why are they shipping seven balloons to Cuba?
That's a that's an excellent question. Yeah. There, it was
not a really huge box, but yeah, it's a little
(08:45):
bit of a mystery. They also found another one about
a hundred thirty five miles to the south of where
they found this one off of Marathon Key where marathon key.
I assume that's still in Florida. I think I think
there's a marathon Florida. So it's just one of the keys,
one of the Florida keys. The Bahamas also have keys
(09:05):
all of that that island clump all around there. They
if it's not if it's of a certain site, they
just call it or whatever key's It doesn't have to
be associated with a specific land mask or anything like that.
Lots of cruise ships own keys ahead and throw that
out there. I want to own my own key. I'm
gonna call it skeleton key or master key or something
(09:26):
like that. Yeah, Okay, back to our mystery. The crates,
according to the Coastguard spokesman, had barnacles on them, and
so that indicated to them to their scientific analysis that
they've been in the water for a couple of months.
There's not too many theories about this, like, for example,
were they being shipped from Russia, these balloons from Russia
(09:49):
to Cuba, or were these crates that perhaps the Russians
had sent to an English speaking country. They just shipped
whatever exports to send some place like England, and then
somebody in England had wanted to ship something to Cuba,
and so they grabbed these crates and ship their stuff
to Cuba. In the crates right, could be at the
(10:10):
Russians shipping balloons to Cuba, could be at somebody in
some intermediary shipping. And that's about as much as we
know there is. The balloons were went like the size
of a cantalope or a soccer ball or something like that.
They weren't very big, but they were fully inflated, and
they weren't they weren't a balloon like you would get
(10:31):
at the party store. They were more of a heavy
rubber yellow balloon, more of like what lifecraft would be
made out of. Yeah, exactly, heavy duty kind of stuff.
Once there that somebody put out is that they were
used as packing materials and they couldn't find these little
styrofoam peanuts and seven that they have styropham puts. That's
(10:52):
that's one there that somebody has put out is that
they were used as packing material And so you'd pop
out a balloon, you'd pull out the optic that you're receiving,
and then close the box up and then and then
set it back on the dock, and sooner or later
somebody throws it into the drink. Yeah. I don't really
buy that. Mostly, I just don't understand why something from
USSR to Cuba would be written in English. But okay, sure, yeah,
(11:16):
well that's why I was That's why I was saying,
it's like, that doesn't make any sense. But but again,
if it was shipped from somewhere other than the uss ARE,
if it was shipped to an English speaking country, then
it would make sense to having so haven't made in
the U s s A. You know what else would
make sense is drunk teenagers pulling a prank. It could
be that too. I mean, that's about the time, right,
(11:38):
but like that would be fund something that would be hilarious. Yeah,
just dump them overboard. Yeah, I feel like the USSR
is sending something to I guess what it is, hot air. Yeah.
I think that if they actually made it all the
way to Cuba and then just got thrown off the pier,
I don't think they would have made it to flow Orda.
(12:00):
I think I would have been stuck somewhere in that region.
They wouldn't have gone that far that it would be
pretty tough for them to drift that far north well,
and and they would because of the Gulf Stream, they
would they would drift east, and so they wouldn't they
wouldn't head north. I mean, so I don't. I don't
think they went straight from Cuba. So that's kind of
a poser. But it could be that it could be
that somehow they wound up in the hands of somebody
(12:22):
who have a boat or maybe they maybe they were
just handy look containers and said maybe a Cuban freighter
or some sort of Cuban government ship was using them
and some of them got washed overboard. And I don't know,
but I have I have another another idea though, as
to wear what they were and why they were balloons
in them. So are you ready from the theory? Okay,
(12:43):
in the water between Cuba and Florida, what do you find?
A lot of water, a lot of that, but you
find something else. You find Cuban refugees trying to escape
the communist tellhold they're living in. And a lot of
these people have actually have actually are so desperate that
they'll actually lashed together a little crappy makeshift raft and
and and take off and try to cross the straight
(13:05):
over to Florida and to get to get away from Cuba,
and there's lots of documented instances of people doing it
and making it to some people not making it. Oh
that it would have been a makeshift craft. Yeah. So
so you get all these crates and if, if at
all possible you want to just on the on the
possibility of leaks and stuff like that, get a little
lecture buoyancy and cramp some balloons in there. So that way,
(13:27):
if your little box, if you want to create springs
a leak, well the balloons will keep you from second
fully inflated and full of air. Yeah yeah, actually, yeah, yeah,
I think that should be considered a possibility. Unfortunately, it's
a sad possibility because it probably means those guys and
probably means the raft broke up and they all drowned.
So that kind of sucks. Yeah. Well, well that's it.
(13:50):
You guys have any other theories? Yeah? Yeah, Now, actually,
what I think happened, let me I take that back.
I think what happened is they made it to Florida.
They jumped off their raft and and and rent up
and kiss the sand and their raft just floating away
to mention broke up. So happy that's that is possible, really,
(14:12):
so yeah, uh So anybody out there, if you're a
Cuban refugee living in the US, and that's how you
got and that's how you got here, and those are
year balloons, we want to hear from you. Send us
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Thinking Sideways Information. It's a mystery short stories of things
we simply don't know the answers to. This week with
a very special episode of Thinking Sideways Short, we're gonna
(00:25):
do short short. Yeah, we're gonna talk about a couple
of little mysteries that are just kind of kind of
too short to actually spin out into a whole hour
long show. So we get a cover cover two really
interesting topics and then categorized, and we're gonna categorize from
the two of them as things that go bob in
the water, things that go bob bob in the water.
(00:47):
First of all, all, I'm gonna mangle the pronunciations of this.
It's the tip of tier blocks, and I'm sure that's
not the way it's supposed to be. It starts with
a T and a jay. I'm just gonna tipotier blocks. Yeah,
have no idea on this. Yeah, these rubber these weird
rubber oblong rectangular blocks with rounded corners, and they have
(01:07):
cast into them. They had the the word and I'm
going to spell it out T G I P E
T I R, which turns maybe the T is silent.
Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's Jupiter or maybe it's Jitpiter.
I don't know. Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's maybe they're
like the tiles Jupiter. You never know, Like in Welsh,
(01:29):
for example, you know and Welsh, if you have two
l's following each other, it changes to the first L
changes to sound. So like there's a town called Clan
didn't know, Clon didn't know, which is a coastal town.
It's starts with two L so it's end. Didn't know.
It's like, languages are weird. I don't even try, don't
How do you keep all of that? Yeah, I've been,
(01:52):
I've been the crime didn't know. It's a it's an
interesting town. So but back to our thing. So, these
things have been washing up on the shore is of
northern Europe now for a while now. Lots of people
have been collecting them, and a lot of people were
wondering what exactly these things were, where they come from.
And this is actually not so much of a mystery.
It turns out that these things are these things are
(02:14):
actually produced in it was a Pakistan, No, Indonesia, that's right, Yeah, Indonesia.
They were produced in Indonesia a long time ago though apparently, Yeah,
there's a there's a plantation. These things are this this
place chip. The name that's in there is the side
of a nineteenth century rubber plantation in Indonesia, which is
where these things were come from. And apparently they're also
(02:37):
not rubber. They made it something called gutta percha Gutta perca,
which is a substance that comes from a tree as
native to Malaysia, and it's pre day's plastic and it
was used for all kinds of stuff for for installation,
waterproof coating and stuff like that, Teddy Bear's noses, bookbindings,
hot air balloons, and it was a very useful thing.
(02:57):
So lots of it was produced in Indonesia, loss of
it was shipped all over the world. And you would
ship it in bricks, right, yeah, I mean it would
it packs nice and compactly in a in a nice
little brick form. Right. And when were they When were
they being produced, I'm sure well into the twentieth century,
but it was in the nineteenth century. Well yeah, but
I mean, but I'm sure they were still producing them
in the twentieth century because they were still shipping them around. Yeah,
(03:20):
because they were using them for in submarines and stuff
like that, so that would make sense. Yeah, there's there's
if you go out there and do a little good
one and you'll find all kinds of pictures of these
things washed up all over the place. People there are
people that collect them. But this is not quite a mystery.
They think that's it's not totally clear, but it's believed
that this mystery has been solved. Somebody named Tracy Williams
(03:43):
in Britain was finding these things and she uh did
a little bit of research on and started got a
little bit obsessed about the whole thing. And yeah, we've
all been there. Yeah, and I've never done that. Yeah yeah,
And and she and and got her name out there
and started reading submission from people who found these slabs
in England, Shetland, Norway, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Germany and
(04:06):
on and on and on Europe. Yeah, mostly Europe, actually
as far as out there as Spain. Yeah, but never
not like America. I don't think so. I've never seen
any you haven't, you know, I haven't seen anything. So
some people actually theorize that these things had carried and
been carried in the Titanic, and that perhaps some of
these things actually were from the Titanic, but it's believed
(04:29):
actually that no, it wasn't the Titanic. This person Williams
was informed by somebody that there was a Japanese cargo
ship called the miya Okay hanging like spelled mariu like
the cat. This was sunk by the Germans in World
(04:49):
War One, that was carrying a whole lot of these
gutter perket balls. Yeah. The British government believes that this
ship is probably the source of the blocks that are
washing up now. And I think the reason for that
is is that somebody has actually been trying to salvage
that ship and so doing so you disturbed the wreck
and all this stuff comes floating out because they are seeing. Yeah,
(05:11):
they're going to open up a hatch and they all
come rushing out. That would make a lot of sense.
And why they're showing up like now, show up now, yeah, exactly,
because it's been down there a long time. Um. Yeah,
they would have been washing up a lot sooner. Yeah,
So they just sat at the bottom of the sea
for a long time. So they were on the Miyazaki Maru.
(05:32):
Miyazaki Maru, which was a Japanese carrying Indonesia. That's cool. No,
it's kind of interesting. I mean, I really hope that
some of them will float this far. Yeah, i'd like
one if you have one and you listen to our
show and you want to send us one as a gift.
The best thing about one of those ones would make
(05:52):
an awesome coaster because because no matter how drunk you are,
you're not going to miss your coaster. That's true. Well
that was that was That was a listener's suggestion, wasn't that?
I was suggested by Linda. That's Linda with a y.
Thanks that They're great, great little story. Sorry we couldn't
stretch it out into a full episode. You guys have
(06:12):
any other theories that you'd like to expand the alien
But you know, I mean, as I think we've we
all know things that float in the ocean, they float
a long way. Um. What was I know we were
talking about this before we started is what is the
name of those toys that I told you about? Yeah?
(06:34):
There they were bath toys, rubber duckies. Cargo ship dropped
a couple of cargo containers overboard, and evidently one of
the concidentally which it was, it was you know, that's
just kind of appalling. How many containers go overboard. Imagine
imagine the damage that would do your your boat if
you're just cruising along and you hit one of those
(06:55):
random things floating in the ocean. Well, I think these
things sank because honously it was ruptured because it led
out all of its cargo, which was all of these
bath toys that were rubber duckies and alligators and stuff.
And for the next fifteen years, people would randomly on
the beach find him. And it wasn't just in the Atlantic.
These things were making their way or the Pacific. It
(07:17):
started the Pacific and they were making their way over
to the Atlantic and floating everywhere things like that. Like,
I'm amazed at these blocks haven't gone farther, to be honest,
that's the one thing that I was. I was surprised
is they're only found on that one coast of the
European coast. Yeah, well, you never know. I mean, that's
that's the first place they' hitting. It might be at
(07:38):
a whole the whole bunches of them that are all
over the ocean that still haven't washed up on shore.
They headed off to other parts. You know, they're heading
off to the east coast of the US god knows where.
So yeah, keeping I keep an eye peeld on your beach. Yeah,
you're friendly, local neighborhood, and then send them to us. Yeah,
well you had more than one of these. Yeah, yes,
(07:59):
this is not going to be that tiny of a
shorty we got. We got another mystery to talk about.
This happened. This mystery had happened. In nineteen sixty seven,
the U. S. Coast Guards found a crate that had
a wooden crate had seven inflated yellow balloons inside of it,
floating off the coast of Florida. Well it is I
feel like it gets even more like an eighties song. Yeah,
(08:22):
an eighties song. Yeah, that's the crate was marked in English,
made in the USSR, and it was addressed to the
Institute of Mineral Resources of Cuba. So they were sending
in balloons. Why are they shipping seven balloons to Cuba?
That's a that's an excellent question. Yeah. There, it was
not a really huge box, but yeah, it's a little
(08:45):
bit of a mystery. They also found another one about
a hundred thirty five miles to the south of where
they found this one off of Marathon Key where marathon key.
I assume that's still in Florida. I think I think
there's a marathon Florida. So it's just one of the keys,
one of the Florida keys. The Bahamas also have keys
(09:05):
all of that that island clump all around there. They
if it's not if it's of a certain site, they
just call it or whatever key's It doesn't have to
be associated with a specific land mask or anything like that.
Lots of cruise ships own keys ahead and throw that
out there. I want to own my own key. I'm
gonna call it skeleton key or master key or something
(09:26):
like that. Yeah, Okay, back to our mystery. The crates,
according to the Coastguard spokesman, had barnacles on them, and
so that indicated to them to their scientific analysis that
they've been in the water for a couple of months.
There's not too many theories about this, like, for example,
were they being shipped from Russia, these balloons from Russia
(09:49):
to Cuba, or were these crates that perhaps the Russians
had sent to an English speaking country. They just shipped
whatever exports to send some place like England, and then
somebody in England had wanted to ship something to Cuba,
and so they grabbed these crates and ship their stuff
to Cuba. In the crates right, could be at the
(10:10):
Russians shipping balloons to Cuba, could be at somebody in
some intermediary shipping. And that's about as much as we
know there is. The balloons were went like the size
of a cantalope or a soccer ball or something like that.
They weren't very big, but they were fully inflated, and
they weren't they weren't a balloon like you would get
(10:31):
at the party store. They were more of a heavy
rubber yellow balloon, more of like what lifecraft would be
made out of. Yeah, exactly, heavy duty kind of stuff.
Once there that somebody put out is that they were
used as packing materials and they couldn't find these little
styrofoam peanuts and seven that they have styropham puts. That's
(10:52):
that's one there that somebody has put out is that
they were used as packing material And so you'd pop
out a balloon, you'd pull out the optic that you're receiving,
and then close the box up and then and then
set it back on the dock, and sooner or later
somebody throws it into the drink. Yeah. I don't really
buy that. Mostly, I just don't understand why something from
USSR to Cuba would be written in English. But okay, sure, yeah,
(11:16):
well that's why I was That's why I was saying,
it's like, that doesn't make any sense. But but again,
if it was shipped from somewhere other than the uss ARE,
if it was shipped to an English speaking country, then
it would make sense to having so haven't made in
the U s s A. You know what else would
make sense is drunk teenagers pulling a prank. It could
be that too. I mean, that's about the time, right,
(11:38):
but like that would be fund something that would be hilarious. Yeah,
just dump them overboard. Yeah, I feel like the USSR
is sending something to I guess what it is, hot air. Yeah.
I think that if they actually made it all the
way to Cuba and then just got thrown off the pier,
I don't think they would have made it to flow Orda.
(12:00):
I think I would have been stuck somewhere in that region.
They wouldn't have gone that far that it would be
pretty tough for them to drift that far north well,
and and they would because of the Gulf Stream, they
would they would drift east, and so they wouldn't they
wouldn't head north. I mean, so I don't. I don't
think they went straight from Cuba. So that's kind of
a poser. But it could be that it could be
that somehow they wound up in the hands of somebody
(12:22):
who have a boat or maybe they maybe they were
just handy look containers and said maybe a Cuban freighter
or some sort of Cuban government ship was using them
and some of them got washed overboard. And I don't know,
but I have I have another another idea though, as
to wear what they were and why they were balloons
in them. So are you ready from the theory? Okay,
(12:43):
in the water between Cuba and Florida, what do you find?
A lot of water, a lot of that, but you
find something else. You find Cuban refugees trying to escape
the communist tellhold they're living in. And a lot of
these people have actually have actually are so desperate that
they'll actually lashed together a little crappy makeshift raft and
and and take off and try to cross the straight
(13:05):
over to Florida and to get to get away from Cuba,
and there's lots of documented instances of people doing it
and making it to some people not making it. Oh
that it would have been a makeshift craft. Yeah. So
so you get all these crates and if, if at
all possible you want to just on the on the
possibility of leaks and stuff like that, get a little
lecture buoyancy and cramp some balloons in there. So that way,
(13:27):
if your little box, if you want to create springs
a leak, well the balloons will keep you from second
fully inflated and full of air. Yeah yeah, actually, yeah, yeah,
I think that should be considered a possibility. Unfortunately, it's
a sad possibility because it probably means those guys and
probably means the raft broke up and they all drowned.
So that kind of sucks. Yeah. Well, well that's it.
(13:50):
You guys have any other theories? Yeah? Yeah, Now, actually,
what I think happened, let me I take that back.
I think what happened is they made it to Florida.
They jumped off their raft and and and rent up
and kiss the sand and their raft just floating away
to mention broke up. So happy that's that is possible, really,
(14:12):
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Cuban refugee living in the US, and that's how you
got and that's how you got here, and those are
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