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Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

We talked about Kazimir Polasky this week,

whose name in Polish, even with practicing,

I feel like I said very badly the one time that I tried to say it.

I, wow.

So, as I said at the top of the episode, he wound up on my short list back in 2019 when

that Smithsonian Channel episode was happening.

I did not watch the episode at that time.

So mostly what I had to go on was like the stuff that came out from the Smithsonian Channel,

writing about it, news reporting about the thing.

And I was really intrigued by the idea that this person who had fought, you know,

been an officer in the Revolutionary War, may have been intersex.

But then doing the actual research into this episode, looking into it a lot farther,

I feel like people are going to come at me.

I just don't think those are his bones from the monument.

I don't either.

So while I appreciated the opportunity to talk again about how there have always been,

always, all through history, all over the world, always people whose lives and whose bodies

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