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I don't see the difficulty Dr. Bill. My dictionary's first definition for snatch is "grasp quickly, eagerly, or unexpectedly."
A rare privilege is something to be grasped eagerly, is it not? Sure, it's a metaphorical grasping rather than a literal, physical one, but it makes perfect sense to me.
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