I still have no potato masher in my life. Each Tuesday comes and with it a hot pan of potatoes to mash and no masher. I have managed to cultivate two topics of key interest that do no elicit the same level of excitement in others my age: gymnastics and penguins. I begin to comprehend train spotters and people who collect those John Deere tractors.

I give you this. They’re so clever: go limp, rather than fight, then out of the jaws they bolt….

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