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“Yeah, what’s it to you? They each came back in one piece, didn’t they?”

“Why? What’s it to you whether I believe it or don’t?”

He really wanted to snarl back at her, What’s it to you?

And then he’d have to say, Yeah, what’s it to you?

One poem, by the late 18th-century Maluli, slowly drains all the country-and-western heartbreak from the refrain, “What’s it to you?”