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Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.

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Is it as heartwarming as a runty, wilted Christmas tree revived by love?

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They are sarcastic, my lot, calling a runty little chap like me Big Fellow, but there you are.

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“But this is different. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.”

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Unlike all the other trees of its kind in the area, it was never cut down, because it was runty and twisted and situated on a rocky slope; it appeared unprofitable to loggers.

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