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To paraphrase par·a·phrase  
n.
1. A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.

2. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

v.
 queer bard Walt Whitman, "After exhausting what there is in business, politics, and so on, only nature remains." Whitman surely would have enjoyed one of the Sierra Club's outings had he not died in 1892, the same year the grassroots environmental organization was founded. After the first GLBT GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered  Sierran chapter started in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  in 1986, queer branches sprouted sprout  
v. sprout·ed, sprout·ing, sprouts

v.intr.
1. To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.

2. To emerge and develop rapidly.

v.tr.
 up nationwide, including the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Gay and Lesbian Sierrans, who are planning a nighttime hike on May 21 along Dinosaur Ridge, a spine of rock where the bones of creatures much older than Whitman reside. Call 303-861-8819. Find more GLBT chapters at OutTraveler.com.
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Title Annotation:GREAT OUTDOORS
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Apr 26, 2005
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