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“In one of the most famous scenes in the novel, the narrator, Marcel, tastes some cake with tea, which releases a flood of memory…”

Ah yes. The same thing happens to me when I eat a Hershey’s kiss.

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For me, it's eggs and toast because that's what my grandmother fed me on Saturday mornings when I went to her house to visit. She's the person who saved my life.

Eggs and toast -- the best meal you can have.

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THANKS, GK! A CURRENT LOOK AT THE AGES:

"....When he was 22, he experienced a "conversion," in which he felt that God had called him to forsake the Catholic Church. He went to Switzerland and wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), and it became a rallying point for Protestants all over Europe."

"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®"

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OTHER "GOOD" WORK COULD HAVE BE DONE BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BACK THEN, TOO. THERE ARE YET NO WIVES UNLESS THE PRIEST TO BE TAKES THE "END RUN". HE CAN JOIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS A FORMER PROTESTANT AND WITH HIS WIFE. THERE'S OFTEN A REAL NEED FOR HUSBAND AND WIFE. AND SOME FOR WHOM THERE AREN'T. AND THAT, TOO, COULD BE A "RALLYING POINT."

"BE WELL, DO GOOD WORK AND KEEP THE GOOD TOUCH."

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PS: ON PBS, THERE'S "GRANCHESTER." A DEACON YET WITHOUT A WIFE. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW. HIS PREDECESSOR BECAME A HUSBAND AND FATHER. SO FAR HIS POLICE CAPT. FRIEND IS HAPPY WITH EITHER ONE.

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Thanks Garrison. These daily servings often awaken my morning thought to listen more to the day which follows: the people and happenings and to feel the multipatched quilt of occurrences over time which is my life. I like this day’s especially. Tasty. Filling. Mmmm.

Thanks, Garrison.

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I’m surprised you don’t note the recent loss of Alice Munroe. 😞

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Note that this episode was actually originally published in 2013.

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Are they not updating them at all? Just recycling?

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I forget when exactly they stopped producing new episodes, but it’s been something like five years.

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'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed." Not all bad. If you can't do better, why do?

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I guess you will have to drop Alice Munro from the rotation, now that she's been revealed as a self-absorbed creep, indifferent to her husband's sexual abuse of her daughter. Right?

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Alice Munro

Furnishes a tale of woe

Yes, hubs diddled daughter, nine

But you see he's mine, all mine!

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