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Slow cooker
Velda 2022-04-23 07:02:55
The family theme is always the most skillful, there is no urban car, no tsunami snowstorm, and no aliens knocking on the door. All you have to deal with is the flowers and plants in the backyard, the incurable lung disease, and the wife who has turned into a photo. But it's also an excellent stage because everyone is both an audience member and an actor. Birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, need to be simmered on a low fire, stewed until everything is disconnected, and this is life.
Extended Reading
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Young Man in Diner #1: I'm 94. I keep away from the doctors.
Frank Goode: Boy.
Young Man in Diner #1: I have three children, six grandchildren. They're busy. They're too busy to talk to me. I gotta make an appointment. They got lost some place. They don't need anybody. People changed, life is changed. Today, you shake hands with somebody, you gotta count your fingers to make sure you got five fingers back.
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Amy: I tell you the good news and spare you the bad. Isn't that what mom used to do for you when we were kids?