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“My yield mother to no substitute would rind for watermelon pickles in her chicken salad”

SIMPLE PLEASURES

“Happy as a Mudlark” (August/September 2020) brought back so many wonderful memories of my adventures with my eighty-two-year-old mom doing the “Sanibel Stoop” along the Thames. I never knew that our digging in the mud had a

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