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The little matter of the waist

It is defined as the narrowest part between the lowest rib and the hip. The waist.

Cut to an everyday scene at the airport: “Didn’t I tell you to put everything on the scanner? Belt, purse, watch, mobile, everything.”

“But sir,” the man in front me in the queue gently mumbled.

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