Colonel Allen sat transfixed in his jeep, reminiscing as Charlie Company's Jody cadence gradually receded; echoing and re-echoing through honeysuckled foothills he had once traversed as a young officer candidate.

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After all that the car wouldn't start and, to make the cheese more binding, Jack had taken my jumper cables.

A specific dose-response enrichment of the stomach tissue C8:0 was observed as a function of dietary C8:0, supporting the hypothesis of an early preduodenal hydrolysis of medium chain triglycerides and a direct absorption at the gastric level.