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Who is Teague de La Plaine?
Like any good writer, I’ve lived many lives. Once upon time I was a Marine Corps officer, a merchant sailor, a performer, and a globetrotting, seafaring, adventurous rapscallion. I am now an indie writer (and live near the sea with my wife and three little rascals) creating primarily on Substack. I’m also still a rapscallion.
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rapscallion | rap'skalyan | n. archaic or humorous: a mischievous person. ORIGIN: late 17th century: alteration of earlier rascallion, perhaps from rascal.
i should do a rap on this