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Staph

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23. Making dinner -- baked steak and mashed potatoes.
Tue May 9, 2017, 06:53 PM
May 2017

I was bopping back and forth between the kitchen and the family room, with CNN on the television. When Wolf Blitzer said that there was real Breaking News, I paused. When the announcement was made, I gasped aloud and had to sit down.


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