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I lived in the late 50s in an apartment on Hemenway Street in Boston that had this exact unit. It was a tiny apartment, and my roommate and I appreciated the fact that we had a "real" kitchen in spite of the lack of space. I'd forgotten about it until I saw the ad, which brought it all back. Fun times!
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My cat Harry (now deceased) walked happily on a leash for the entire 16 years I had him. Got him from an animal shelter, and since I lived near a busy street but wanted him to be able to enjoy the outdoors, I thought I would give it a try shortly after we brought him home from the pound. He just stood there and let me put the harness on him, and thereafter basically behaved like a dog in a cat suit. He liked it if I staked him out so he could watch the birds. I think he must have been trained from kittenhood.
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My dad was in the business of selling coal and grain in the 40s, so all the dresses my sisters and I wore, especially during the war, were made from grain (and flour) sacks. I have some old photos of us wearing our sack dresses that my mother, a talented seamstress, made for us.
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I volunteer for our local Friends of the Library that receives donations of thousands of used and new books. We are careful to check the books for whatever might be tucked inside (I found $250 in a biography of Harry Truman a few years ago), and we have collections of "things found in books" that get made into a display for our monthly book sales. Once I was working a book sale, and the person who was sitting with me discovered an old photo of her wedding up on the display -- that was a source of much merriment among the volunteers. The list of items could fill up many pages on single-spaced, 8pt type I'm sure (the Friends is a very old organization). We too have found bacon. Why would someone use a strip of bacon for a bookmark? The mind boggles!
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One of my favorite man-made objects in the world! Spent a glorious few days in Granada back in 1973 with husband and kids, and the day we were at the Alhambra (all day, I might add) remains one of the peak experiences of my life.

So glad it's still intact and perfect. A magnificent work of art.
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The 1981 novel Century's End by Russell Griffin predicted among other things the Walkman and Viagra. It's a lost masterpiece and he's an unappreciated genius!
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Just don't ever go in there during monsoon season -- flash floods come unannounced and numbers of folks have been swept away and drowned in the past. Beautiful place to die, though!
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It's handy to be able to write a dedication to the folks who come to your book signings -- when people look at my copies of my daughter's books and read her lovely messages to me, they always comment on her beautiful handwriting. It sets you apart as an individual, it's part of your personna! It's something to be cultivated to emphasize your uniqueness, an integral accessory, if you will, to a person's personality. Handwriting analysis, after all, is a valuable tool -- for criminologists, psychologists, etc. -- it's considered a science.
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Well, I practiced a combination of unconditional love with letting the kids know that we might disapprove of certain behavior but loved them anyway -- and also totally taught them to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. My parents practiced "conditional love," and all their children resented the hell out of them. I made a promise to myself even before I had any kids that I would do things differently. It turned out extremely well -- as adults, all three offspring are awesome, productive, happy, well-adjusted, loving, successful. It works, people!
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Ringtails are the coolest critters ever -- one used to live in the rafters of a theater here in Tucson, and when the cork ceiling had to be taken down, it would run around up there totally exposed, swinging its tail so that the theater lights would illuminate it, freaking out the audience. It was eventually trapped and relocated. Also, in the Grand Canyon, they love to steal food from the campers who are on river trips -- my daughter, who was once a chef for a river running outfit, had a tug-of-war with a ringtail over a 5-lb bag of roast beef. Cheeky little thing! (She won.)
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My late husband, a musician, used to often whistle the tune that the birds on the wire represented as we drove by. He was one of those musicians who could look at a music staff and automatically know exactly what it would sound like. Fun idea! And if as we were passing by they moved and resettled, he would say, "ah, now it's a G minor chord" or whatever.
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When I was an archaeologist in Northern Arizona, working on the Navajo Reservation, we often saw flocks of sheep tended only by a dog or two -- no people in sight anywhere. They did a fine job. When I was a kid in rural New Hampshire, we would accompany the Border Collies that belonged to the neighboring farm to get the cows in at night -- we opened the gates -- other than that, they didn't need us. Monkeys are on a par with dogs as far as intelligence goes, so why not?
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The science education outreach organization I manage (The Physics Factory, Tucson, AZ) makes "regular" liquid nitrogen ice cream to entertain kids at various programs we present, but I love the idea of making alcoholic liquid nitrogen ice cream for adult gatherings. What a great idea!
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The floor of the Cup Cafe at the Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona, also is made of pennies. They are sealed with something, so no wear at all is evident -- and this place receives very high traffic. It looks cool.
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