"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
-Marcelene Cox
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.“
-Marcelene Cox
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