Thursday, November 7, 2019
"UNCOMMON TYPE: SOME STORIES" By TOM HANKS
"Our Town Today With Hank Fiset"
"Your EVANGELISTA , Esperanza"
Excerpt: "WHY GO ANALOG?...The only negative? 'My friends had to be taught how to get ahold of me.'..."
Excerpt: "WHY GO ANALOG? 'My email was hacked,' Esperanza told me. By who? 'The Russians? The NSC? Fake Nigerian princes? Who knows. My data was stolen. My life was such a mess for months.' These days she uses the internet sparingly and has an old flip-style flip phone, with which she can text but which she prefers to use the old-style way-by getting and receiving actual telephone calls. She never has to ask for the wi-fi password. And as for Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, et al.? 'Gave them up', she says, almost bragging. 'When the hack happened and I went off social media, my day gained, like, six hours! I spent so long checking my phone every few minutes. Never mind how much time I wasted playing SnoKon, catching colored balls of ice in a little triangle cup for points.' The only negative? 'My friends had to be taught how to get ahold of me.' What is written, exactly, on that typewriter of hers? 'Lots! I have a big family. Birthdays, the nieces and nephews get a letter and a five- or ten-dollar bill. I write memos for work that I either copy or rewrite and email at the office. And here...' She held up a page filled with the neatest, most perfectly formatted document you could ask for. 'This is my grocery list.'...
"Your EVANGELISTA , Esperanza"
Excerpt: "WHY GO ANALOG?...The only negative? 'My friends had to be taught how to get ahold of me.'..."
Excerpt: "WHY GO ANALOG? 'My email was hacked,' Esperanza told me. By who? 'The Russians? The NSC? Fake Nigerian princes? Who knows. My data was stolen. My life was such a mess for months.' These days she uses the internet sparingly and has an old flip-style flip phone, with which she can text but which she prefers to use the old-style way-by getting and receiving actual telephone calls. She never has to ask for the wi-fi password. And as for Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, et al.? 'Gave them up', she says, almost bragging. 'When the hack happened and I went off social media, my day gained, like, six hours! I spent so long checking my phone every few minutes. Never mind how much time I wasted playing SnoKon, catching colored balls of ice in a little triangle cup for points.' The only negative? 'My friends had to be taught how to get ahold of me.' What is written, exactly, on that typewriter of hers? 'Lots! I have a big family. Birthdays, the nieces and nephews get a letter and a five- or ten-dollar bill. I write memos for work that I either copy or rewrite and email at the office. And here...' She held up a page filled with the neatest, most perfectly formatted document you could ask for. 'This is my grocery list.'...
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
"WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY IN BOOKSTORES" BY JEN CAMPBELL
Some of MY favorites from the book, MONTY PYTHON connections:
Ghosts
p. 206, Customer: I need to return this book on ghosts.
Bookseller: Is there a problem with it?
Customer: Yes. It's haunted.
-Susan Holland: Smith Books, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Ref: Alice In Wonderland
p. 25-26, Customer: Do you have any of those books where you can change the names of the main character to the name of the person you're giving the book to? Do you have ALICE IN WONDERLAND, but not Alice. I'd like SARAH in WONDERLAND.
Bookseller: I'm afraid you have to buy those from the publisher, as they're print on demand service.
Customer: Yeah, I don't really have time to do that. Do you have a copy of ALICE IN WONDERLAND? Then I can just cross out the name myself and change it.
Ref: Picture Books
P. 43, Customer: It makes me sad that grown-up books don't have pictures in them. You're brought up with them when you're younger, and then suddenly they're all taken away!
Bookseller: Yes. It's a cruel world.
Ref: Bumblebee
p. :46, Customer (to bookseller): Won't be a sec.
(Customer wanders off into non-fiction)
Bookseller: So, what's your name?
Child: Sarah.
Bookseller: Sarah? That's a beautiful name.
Child: Thank you.
Bookseller: So, Sarah, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Child:...A bumblebee.
Bookseller: Excellent.
13
p. 94, Bookseller: Ok, so with postage costs that brings your total to $13.05. One second and I'll get the card machine.
Customer: No. No, absolutely not. I demand that you charge me $12.99. I will not pay for anything that starts with thirteen. You're trying to give me bad luck. Now, change it, or I will find a bookstore that doesn't want me to fall down a hole and die. Ok?
LOTR
p. 104, (Customer brings THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy to the counter)
Customer: I am Legolas and I need to spread the word about THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I need to have this book for free.
Bookseller: No, I'm sorry, I can't give you the book for free.
Customer's Friend: You have failed your quest!
- Christopher Miya, Pegasus Books, Berkeley and Oakland, CA
p. 133, Customer (to her friend, upon opening a copy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS): Oh, look, this one's got a a map in the front.
Customer's friend: Oh yeah. Where's it of?
Customer: Mor...Mor-dor.
Customer's friend: Oh. Where's that then?
Harry Potter
p. 114, Customer: Do you have Harry Potter book seven, part two?
Bookseller: Book seven is just one volume.
Customer: But the movie has two parts, so there must be a second book. They don't just make movies from nothing!
- Gabe Konrad, Buy Leaf Used & Rarte Books, Sand Lake, MI
...so much more...208 pages total
Ghosts
p. 206, Customer: I need to return this book on ghosts.
Bookseller: Is there a problem with it?
Customer: Yes. It's haunted.
-Susan Holland: Smith Books, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Ref: Alice In Wonderland
p. 25-26, Customer: Do you have any of those books where you can change the names of the main character to the name of the person you're giving the book to? Do you have ALICE IN WONDERLAND, but not Alice. I'd like SARAH in WONDERLAND.
Bookseller: I'm afraid you have to buy those from the publisher, as they're print on demand service.
Customer: Yeah, I don't really have time to do that. Do you have a copy of ALICE IN WONDERLAND? Then I can just cross out the name myself and change it.
Ref: Picture Books
P. 43, Customer: It makes me sad that grown-up books don't have pictures in them. You're brought up with them when you're younger, and then suddenly they're all taken away!
Bookseller: Yes. It's a cruel world.
Ref: Bumblebee
p. :46, Customer (to bookseller): Won't be a sec.
(Customer wanders off into non-fiction)
Bookseller: So, what's your name?
Child: Sarah.
Bookseller: Sarah? That's a beautiful name.
Child: Thank you.
Bookseller: So, Sarah, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Child:...A bumblebee.
Bookseller: Excellent.
13
p. 94, Bookseller: Ok, so with postage costs that brings your total to $13.05. One second and I'll get the card machine.
Customer: No. No, absolutely not. I demand that you charge me $12.99. I will not pay for anything that starts with thirteen. You're trying to give me bad luck. Now, change it, or I will find a bookstore that doesn't want me to fall down a hole and die. Ok?
LOTR
p. 104, (Customer brings THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy to the counter)
Customer: I am Legolas and I need to spread the word about THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I need to have this book for free.
Bookseller: No, I'm sorry, I can't give you the book for free.
Customer's Friend: You have failed your quest!
- Christopher Miya, Pegasus Books, Berkeley and Oakland, CA
p. 133, Customer (to her friend, upon opening a copy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS): Oh, look, this one's got a a map in the front.
Customer's friend: Oh yeah. Where's it of?
Customer: Mor...Mor-dor.
Customer's friend: Oh. Where's that then?
Harry Potter
p. 114, Customer: Do you have Harry Potter book seven, part two?
Bookseller: Book seven is just one volume.
Customer: But the movie has two parts, so there must be a second book. They don't just make movies from nothing!
- Gabe Konrad, Buy Leaf Used & Rarte Books, Sand Lake, MI
...so much more...208 pages total
Saturday, October 26, 2019
OCTOBER 25TH, 2019
8 AM-ish on way to buy paper newspapers (dinosaur):
Motorcyclists - trim, leather jackets, helmets
Eking out last good weather days
Before Winter sets in (big time)
Meditation, Hopkinton Senior Center, Noon - 1 PM
Autumn trees undressing
Making way for Winter's dance
or
Giving way to Winter's dance
or
Giving way to Winter's embrace
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Little insects still bravely chirping and buzzing
5 PM-ish, Hopedale, MA
Mosquitoes still out
Business Names
Men In Kilts - gutters?
The Roofah! MA accent
Motorcyclists - trim, leather jackets, helmets
Eking out last good weather days
Before Winter sets in (big time)
Meditation, Hopkinton Senior Center, Noon - 1 PM
Autumn trees undressing
Making way for Winter's dance
or
Giving way to Winter's dance
or
Giving way to Winter's embrace
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Little insects still bravely chirping and buzzing
5 PM-ish, Hopedale, MA
Mosquitoes still out
Business Names
Men In Kilts - gutters?
The Roofah! MA accent
Thursday, October 24, 2019
"INSIDE MY HEAD" ; SOCKS
Thoughts fleeting
Soaping and rinsing
Tumbling and turning
Like socks gone missing
Or lost
In the washing machine and dryer
Of what purports to be my "brain"
Inside my head
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| Double Trouble Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci |
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
"THE HELPING HAND" By EMILE RENOUL (sp?) - "Ocean Child" Chronicles 2
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| This reminds me of my Dad and Sister |
"GROWING UP IN A VACATION TOURIST TOWN" BY ELIZABETH (elizabeth ann sherman-taylor) "Ocean Child" Chronicles 3
Late 1950's to Late 1970's
West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa
Sea Gull Beach, off South Sea Avenue, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa
When it Summer rains, the Tourists flock to the Gift Shops, some of them grumpy. They are not in the sun and heat.
They do not see or experience the beauty of a beach, ocean, shrouded in fog, visibility reduced, other senses taking over. Smelling, tasting, sea salt. Feeling, hearing, being showered, or pelted, by rain. Ocean gently rolling or heaving, undulating waves, sea spray all the colors of the spectrum, blue gray, green white, sea birds weathering the storm. On the surface, who knows what roils beneath, unlucky remnants from the turmoil strewn, stranded upon the sand after, a beachcomber's dream. The buoy clanging.
The warm Summer rain ozone smell falls around our house. Mom says to us two girls, sisters, "Put on your bathing suits, go barefoot, run, dance, walk, jump in the rain, outside." And so we do.
And then we are old enough to work in the Gift Shops.
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa
Sea Gull Beach, off South Sea Avenue, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa
When it Summer rains, the Tourists flock to the Gift Shops, some of them grumpy. They are not in the sun and heat.
They do not see or experience the beauty of a beach, ocean, shrouded in fog, visibility reduced, other senses taking over. Smelling, tasting, sea salt. Feeling, hearing, being showered, or pelted, by rain. Ocean gently rolling or heaving, undulating waves, sea spray all the colors of the spectrum, blue gray, green white, sea birds weathering the storm. On the surface, who knows what roils beneath, unlucky remnants from the turmoil strewn, stranded upon the sand after, a beachcomber's dream. The buoy clanging.
The warm Summer rain ozone smell falls around our house. Mom says to us two girls, sisters, "Put on your bathing suits, go barefoot, run, dance, walk, jump in the rain, outside." And so we do.
And then we are old enough to work in the Gift Shops.
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
EXCERPT: "THE WILDWATER WALKING CLUB" By CLAIRE COOK - WALKING IN BEACH COMMUNITIES "Ocean Child" Chronicles 5
"We'd taken a right at the end of Wildwater Way, and once more I was heading in the direction of the beach. Maybe people who lived in beach communities were automatically pulled toward the water whenever they left their homes."
EXCERPT: "THE WILDWATER WALKING CLUB" By CLAIRE COOK; "CLOTHESPINS!'" "Ocean Child" Chronicles 6
Growing up South Sea Avenue, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa 1950's - 1970's, back yard clothesline reel, just to the side of the small back porch, close to the back room laundry area, old double soap stone sink...hanging the laundry out to dry on a nice day, sun dried, fresh, salt sea air smell of the laundry when time to bring it in...I still have the wood clothespins, some older more sturdy than other newer lighter ones, still find uses for them quite a bit...
"REFLECTION FOR THE DAY"
"Clothespins! God, I love clothespins. We should stock up on them. Some day they will stop making them, and then what? "
"James Tate"
WWW.REFLECTIONFORTHEDAY.COM
Copyright 2015 Tom Fitzpatrick
Excerpt:
"THE WILDWATER WALKING CLUB" By CLAIRE COOK
"'...I just hate like hell that some elitist town ordinance is telling me I can't have a clothesline on my property. But I'm not an unreasonable person.'
..."All I wanted to know', I said, 'was if you'd give me a clothesline referral. You know, the name of someone who installs them locally.'
She scrunched up her forehead. 'Is this a trick?'
I shook my head.
'You really don't know how to put up a clothesline/'
I shook my head again.
'Seriously?'
'Stop,' I said, 'you're giving me a clothesline complex.'
'Sorry.' She smiled. 'I'll put one up for you. As long as you don't mind being my cell mate if someone drops a dime on us.'
'It'd be the most excitement I've had in ages. Hey, what shoe size do you wear?'"...
"REFLECTION FOR THE DAY"
"Clothespins! God, I love clothespins. We should stock up on them. Some day they will stop making them, and then what? "
"James Tate"
WWW.REFLECTIONFORTHEDAY.COM
Copyright 2015 Tom Fitzpatrick
Excerpt:
"THE WILDWATER WALKING CLUB" By CLAIRE COOK
"'...I just hate like hell that some elitist town ordinance is telling me I can't have a clothesline on my property. But I'm not an unreasonable person.'
..."All I wanted to know', I said, 'was if you'd give me a clothesline referral. You know, the name of someone who installs them locally.'
She scrunched up her forehead. 'Is this a trick?'
I shook my head.
'You really don't know how to put up a clothesline/'
I shook my head again.
'Seriously?'
'Stop,' I said, 'you're giving me a clothesline complex.'
'Sorry.' She smiled. 'I'll put one up for you. As long as you don't mind being my cell mate if someone drops a dime on us.'
'It'd be the most excitement I've had in ages. Hey, what shoe size do you wear?'"...
Monday, June 24, 2019
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Monday, June 10, 2019
NATURE GILDS OUTDOOR CARS WITH THICK YELLOW GOLD DUST - BLOOMSNEEZEALOT
10 June 2019 Monday
Sunshine Dry Warm Pleasant
Nature gilds outdoor cars with thick, yellow, gold dust
Pollen
Bloomsneezealot
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Sunshine Dry Warm Pleasant
Nature gilds outdoor cars with thick, yellow, gold dust
Pollen
Bloomsneezealot
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
GHOSTED BY GHOSTS
9 June 2019
Sunny Sunday afternoon, front porch, pleasant, dry, warm, cool breeze.
Wind rocked, empty, companion rocking chair.
Toys put away, toy chest closed.
Contentment. Peace.
Acceptance.
No ghosts here, today.
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Sunny Sunday afternoon, front porch, pleasant, dry, warm, cool breeze.
Wind rocked, empty, companion rocking chair.
Toys put away, toy chest closed.
Contentment. Peace.
Acceptance.
No ghosts here, today.
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Monday, May 6, 2019
CHILDREN'S TEA: ALICE IN WONDERLAND THEME - 1 - Tea Shop Mystery #11 by LAURA CHILDS
"Children's Tea: Alice In Wonderland Theme" by Laura Childs
"oversized playing card place mats"
" little 'drink me' bottles of fruit juice"
" small, white fuzzy rabbits capering across the tablescape"
" Alice In Wonderland gift bags for the children"
" pink, purple, and green mylar balloons"
" Ceramic Cheshire cat centerpiece"
" Cake in the shape of a white rabbit with a fondant watch"
" White Rabbit cups and saucers"
" Mad Hatter teapot"
" Sugar cookies in shapes of teapots and clocks"
THE TEABERRY STRANGLER, TEA SHOP MYSTERY #11 BY LAURA CHILDS
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Children's Tea: Alice In Wonderland Theme
I want to go!!!!! - surely not just for children?!
I am also "Alice In Wonderland", still
- elizabeth
elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
TEA AND MAGICAL FOLK - 3 - "MILFORD DAILY NEWS", "PLUM TEA CRAZY, Tea Shop Mystery #19" BY LAURA CHILDS
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| elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com |
Friday, May 3, 2019
SPRING PASSAGES - WHITE FLOWERING TREE SNOW
White flowering trees
Dropping white flowering tree petals
Wind blown
Like snow
2019 - Looks like Spring -flowering plants and trees
Sounds like Spring - bird songs
Doesn't feel like Spring - cool, damp, gray
The other side of the coin Spring
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
SPRING PASSAGES - PURPLE FLOWER MONEY PLANTS AND BLUE MYRTLE (Sorcerer's Flower)
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| Photo By Elizabeth Ann Sherman-Taylor elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com |
Monday, April 29, 2019
SPRING PASSAGES - TULIP AND BLUE MYRTLE (Sorcerer's Flower)
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| This photo is from a year or two or so ago. This photo by Elizabeth Ann Sherman-Taylor My husband took an almost exact same positioned photo, also. This year there are 2 tulips, the just noticed second tulip a bit in back of this one, next to two tree trunks - elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com |
SPRING PASSAGES - AMPHIBIAN PEEPERS
"One doesn't hear frogs wherever there is water but there is water where you hear frogs."
- 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'
(Reflection For The Day, WWW.REFLECTIONFORTHE DAY.COM, 2014 Thomas Fitzpatrick)
(Boston Globe, April 19, 2014, G23)
"Someone is walking over the wooden bridge...hear the deep frog-silence."
- 'Oshima Ryota'
(Reflection For the Day, WWW.REFLECTIONFORTHEDAY.COM, 2015 Thomas Fitzpatrick )
(Boston Globe, 2015 Date Unknown, Page Unknown)
...and then Boston Globe discontinued Reflection For The Day...cost cutting...
SNAPPLE Tea "Real Fact" #1352: A group of frogs is called an army.
'Get all the "Real Facts" at snapple.com'
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| Once Upon a Time, Water Fresh Farms, Hopkinton, MA photo by Elizabeth Ann Sherman-Taylor |
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
SPRING PASSAGES - REDWING BLACKBIRD
HARBINGER
Rusty Hinge Creaky Door
Sing
Redwing Blackbird
Rasps
"It's Spring!"
- February 23, 2012
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
LEFT BEHIND - SHALL WE DANCE?
One lone pair on pavement
Flat black ballet style shoes
Empty parking lot
"Pinz"
"Eat - Drink - Bowl - Play"
Depot Street, Milford, MA
Observed 04/14/2019, Palm Sunday, 9:00 AM-ish
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
Friday, March 29, 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019
6 WORDS STORY - SUMMER OCEAN WATER THERAPY (South Side, Cape Cod, MA usa, Atlantic Ocean)
Bathtub warm center
Cool ocean surround
Sea Gull Beach, off South Sea Avenue, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA usa
Growing up year round Cape Cod, MA usa 1950's - 1970's
elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Friday, March 22, 2019
6 WORDS STORY - RAINY DAY BICYCLIST
Left hand handlebar
Right hand umbrella
- 2nd day of Spring, not very Spring-like, raw, grey, rainy,
windy, cold. No new snow.
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
6 WORDS STORY - HURRY MORNING
Bagel, cream cheese
Cold coffee sips
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Saturday, March 9, 2019
SLOW COOKER SHIPWRECK STEW
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 7 hours
Total Time: 7 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 8
Slow Cooker Size: 6 quart or larger
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 3 medium potatoes, sliced
- 1 white onion, diced
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 15 oz. can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 21 oz. Campbell's tomato soup (2 10.5 oz. cans)
- 1 oz. packet taco seasoning
- 1.5 cups water
Instructions:
1) Brown ground beef in a skillet on stovetop until cooked through, drain. Add to slow cooker.
2) Add remaining ingredients, stir.
3) Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours without opening the lid during cooking time.
4) Stir, and serve. Great as is or topped with cheese.
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My husband got this recipe somewhere from the Internet. We liked it.
elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Cook Time: 7 hours
Total Time: 7 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 8
Slow Cooker Size: 6 quart or larger
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 3 medium potatoes, sliced
- 1 white onion, diced
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 15 oz. can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 21 oz. Campbell's tomato soup (2 10.5 oz. cans)
- 1 oz. packet taco seasoning
- 1.5 cups water
Instructions:
1) Brown ground beef in a skillet on stovetop until cooked through, drain. Add to slow cooker.
2) Add remaining ingredients, stir.
3) Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours without opening the lid during cooking time.
4) Stir, and serve. Great as is or topped with cheese.
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My husband got this recipe somewhere from the Internet. We liked it.
elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Friday, March 1, 2019
6 WORDS STORY, 01 MARCH 2019, FRIDAY
Six words story
Hemingway clairvoyant - Twitter
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Thursday, February 28, 2019
6 WORDS STORY, 28 FEBRUARY 2019, THURSDAY
Bouncing friend
Sings silly,
Funny music.
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
6 WORDS STORY, 27 FEBRUARY 2019, WEDNESDAY
Attention span depleted
Bored paying bills
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
6 WORDS STORY, 26 FEBRUARY 2019, TUESDAY
Lighted Christmas Village
Aurora Borealis Tree
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Monday, February 25, 2019
6 WORDS STORY, 25 FEBRUARY 2019, MONDAY
Wind chimes tinkle
Cold breeze sunrise
- elizabethsdiary20.blogspot.com
- elizabeth ann sherman-taylor
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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