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My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.

My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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