A. Let's go out on Friday; it's my birthday!
The Raven is the answer.
Google search Edgar Allen Poe, he is the author and near the end of his life he was quite eccentric and paranoid.
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the water boundary between the two nations was to run along the 49th parallel to the middle of the Strait of Georgia and then south through the middle of the channel, then out the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the sea.
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