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The Zodiac Placemat Says Snakes Are \u2018Wise and Intense With a Tendency Towards Physical Beauty, Vain and High Tempered.\u2019 Click to enlarge and scroll Chinese-American Click to enlarge It Is Faster to Get to No Than Yes Click to enlarge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1546,"featured_media":308194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5557,5966,5561],"tags":[356,6041,4,178,6105,430,94],"class_list":["post-308156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lit-mags","category-poetry","category-the-commuter","tag-childhood","tag-china","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-race","tag-relationships"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nI May Be a Snake But I'll Never Become Your Purse - 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