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This was the puzzle: A knight awakens, shackled in a stone cell.—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025 Pears, more noticeably than other fruits, have these stone cells with thicker cell walls, which give the flesh a gritty texture; no doubt, the better pears are cultivated to make the stone cells less noticeable to the human palate.—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
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