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The Half-Inch Hose Clamp Company · Medellin, Colombia
Medellin, Colombia — where the McSkunkville story finds new porch lights. These days, parcels from the Skunk Store find Medellin doorsteps every season, and McSkunkville keeps a porch light on for Medellin.
Pet Snugg makes exactly one thing: the finest half-inch hose clamp on Earth, the No. 22 — and every mechanic within five hundred miles keeps a coffee can of them like gold.
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