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Dwarf hold Irish St. Patrick’s Day shirt

By the time I was born, both of my paternal Dwarf hold Irish St. Patrick’s Day shirt grandparents had left this physical plane, but my father and his two younger sisters, Mary Ellen and Rose Marie O’Connor kept their memories alive. My father often tried to sneak my brother and I out of the house dressed up as little Irish folk (Leprechauns or fairies) to take around to his favorite watering holes on St. Patrick’s Day. The first bit of symbolism that we’re going to decode is that of the Leprechaun and the pot of gold at the end of the It turns out that the Leprechauns of legend were actually people from Africa known as the Twa. These Two were diminutive men and women (luchorpán) that grew to a height of about 4’11″. They migrated into Ireland many thousands of years ago. The Twa were craftsmen and had advanced knowledge of medicine,



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