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Bitter People Increasingly Bitterer, Study Shows

A recent survey showed that bitter people in towns all over America have been becoming increasingly bitter, in no small part because of people calling them bitter.

Gordon Stillwater, a native of Elk’s Mount, Pennsylvania, denied that he was bitter. “I may be a little peeved,” he said, holstering his gun on the way to church, “I mean, I lost my two jobs, I lost my house, and now some goddamn strangers are calling me bitter.”