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• Kin, n.: An affliction of the blood
• KIN: An affliction of the blood.
• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
• Blood and Guts.
• F u kin reed this, thank a teechor.
• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sobe
  ot to make us sorry but wise. -- Henry Ward Beeche...
• AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,--how exquisite the bliss!
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- A Winter Nigh...