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I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

Tim Winton

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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
Green
Ants
Wonderful
Bite
Often
Bites
Experience
Trick
Enough
Ruins
Tricks
Tongue
Otherwise
Squash

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