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For your Saturday afternoon perusal, may I suggest four pages of Molly Ivins' brilliant quotations. With this kind of material there is absolutely no need for me to go on and on. So I won't.
Photo note: A perfectly preserved rose, still hanging on the vine on December 20. Rather amazing, like Molly Ivins.