The cedar count today is really high, so I might have to call work and tell them I'm too sick to go in.

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Rice is sold by the kilogram.

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As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

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For the new year, Liu's company gives every employee a bag of flour.

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Fish is sold by the pound here.

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