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Tell Me All the Ways
My stomach growls as the baseball game ends on TV. Damned Yankees lost again. “Aida, can you bring me some milk and cookies, please?” “Coming right up,” she says. A few moments later, she comes into the living room with a plate of oatmeal-raisin cookies and a glass of milk.…
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