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"Coal" is a dirty word these days, but the actual physical stuff is quite beautiful, especially the hard dense, packed kind, anthracite. One of the things you learn as a steel town kid is all sorts of random shit about coal.
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And earlier, this nice wee haul of sea-coal, beachcombed out of the scatter-line at the high-water mark. (Explanation: twitter.com/Mikeachim/stat)
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Did you ever do the thing where you plant a piece of coal in your backyard to see if it will start turning into a diamond? My grandpa was a coal miner and I definitely tried that.
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