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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from 31.01.2014 16:23   
      
     ak>> What is "the small of the back"?   
     PQ> It's an imprecise area at the base of the spine, in line with   
     PQ> the top of the hips.   
      
   It is probably anachronism, appeared in the time when a human waist was    
   the thinnest area of a torso. Nowadays, the author should write "the big    
   of the back". ;=)   
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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