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And a great scary poem by Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter, in which Tam, blotto drunk from an evening of imbibing, has to make it home on a dreary night. At a haunted bridge he runs into a ghost and goblin party. One female goblin is dressed in a bottomless smock. She does a cartwheel and Tam, still DWI, shouts his approval. "Weel done cutty sark!" Cutty sark or short shirt, then used to name a famous ship, and a famous whisky.

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I just read “Cheerfulness” Garrison, and loved it. The perfect balm for these pre-election days. I was uplifted by all your stories of gratitude. Thanks so much, from a fellow Minnesotan, a St. Paul boy (living now for many years in the great Pacific Northwest).

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