One of life's great mysteries, to me anyway, is how people who face the same circumstances act or react so differently. Both my parents struggled through the Great Depression. And afterward? My mother became cautious and saved every penny she could. My father, on the other hand, became reckless and spent every penny he had, and some he didn't have. A mystery indeed.
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The last time I went to San Francisco, I was going to wear flowers in my hair, just as the song says you should. But I discovered my hair was too thin to support the stems.
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Today's puzzlement is an oldie but a goodie. A drawer contains 10 brown socks and 10 black socks. How many socks must you remove without looking at them before you are sure to have a pair of brown socks. We'll give the answer Monday.
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Once I had a bright yellow car. But I was so much younger then.
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The movie "In Bruges" made me want to go to that city, despite the weird goings-on depicted in the film. Or maybe it was because of the weird goings-on.
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