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William Alexander had a simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard. It was a dream that would lead to life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, and weeds; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer); the near electrocution of the tree man; and the pity of his wife and children.
When Alexander decided to run a cost-benefit analysis, adding up everything from the Havahart animal trap ($60) to the Velcro tomato wraps ($5) to the steel edging ($1,200), then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it came as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow each tomato.
A gardener with an existential bent, Alexander gives excellent advice about everything from peaches to leeks, while tackling such questions as What do our gardens tell us about ourselves? Do we get the gardens we deserve? And why does the groundhog have to take one bite from half a dozen tomatoes when any gardener would gladly grant him six bites of just one?
Customer Reviews:
Great book gift for green thumbs (and brown thumbs).......2007-08-09
I HATE gardening, but thoroughly enjoyed reading Alexander's odyssey of his quest to build his dream garden. Very funny account of epic battles with weeds, rodents, and bugs as he tries to prevent his little "hobby" from ruining his life. Your gardening friends will love this book (and non-gardeners will too!)
A tasty little story.......2007-08-02
His wife's insistence on an old fixer-upper of a house means the author can have the garden, orchard, and even meadow he's always dreamed. Once the house is livable--and everyone in town knows it has to be repaired to be livable--the owners start on the grounds. Landscape contractors, who are always late and leave their backhoe to winter in the author's yard, promise a garden to be proud of--and then bring plans for some very ordinary rectangles.
Not to be daunted, Alexander picks heirloom plants to grow his produce. He is determined to have the same fruit and experiences he remembers from his father's gardening. Organic gardening should be easy when he has only four trees and a small garden. He can pluck off the hungry worms and organically protect his crops from predators of all types.
After learning how much time is involved in using the organic bug sprays--first you find the caterpillar, then you spray him--how much it costs to put in something other than grass walkways, and that some animals are not deterred by six thousand volts, he gets down to serious gardening.
His wife and children begin to question his sanity. His plants don't always grow the way he expected. Who knew growing roses would kill the corn? Sitting down to calculate the cost of his succulent heirloom tomatoes gives him a jolt he thought he'd only get from his electric fence. Did his dad really do it this way? Had he been hoodwinked about how much fun this all was? When did the hobby become a second job?
You needn't be a gardener to enjoy the humor in this book. The history of tomatoes and potatoes, and insights on the Anasazi Indians thrown in with ridding the garden of Superchuck, the groundhog, is true fun for the reading. Cultivated entertainment.
Armchair Interview says: Humor and hoeing, planting and waiting, bugs and bug sprays flow together to give you an enjoyable read.
Enjoyable memoir of a man and his garden.......2007-07-26
I am by no means a gardening expert, more of a beginner, but I enjoyed this memoir of one man's obsession with and relationship with his garden. I found it informative and funny. I took as much what not to do, as what to do, from the book. I mean, you can see the excessiveness of his spending and learn from it as much as you can learn from the ways he fights pests on his fruit trees. I read books like this for inspiration and I was inspired by his mistakes and successes. All in all it was an enjoyable light read.
For the Gardening Obsessed.......2007-07-26
This book speaks to every obsessed gardener in America. The majority of the public, however, won't get it. They put in a few pansies, water them when they think of it and go on with their lives. But a few of us have an insatiable drive to work the soil, wage a constant war with the elements and beat off ravaging beasts just so we can be overwhelmed with too much produce.
Our neighbors think we're nuts--why would someone put themselves through all that labor and expense to get something they could buy at the corner market for $0.85 a pound? (Yeah, well I don't get the mountain climbing thing either.)
I like Alexander's writing--it was cute and witty and perfectly illustrated a man trying to work in his career, family and home improvement projects around his gardening obsession. All 2,000 square feet of it.
Although organic gardeners will be disgusted with how often Alexander reaches for the spray can, most will be able to relate to his journey.
A really cute read but I can't review the recipes as I didn't try them out yet.
As an animal lover..........2007-06-28
... I too was distressed by the chapters where the authors obsession defies his place at the top of the food chain and his "logical" abilities. When the local fauna decide that his exorbitantly expensive garden is the local salad bar, he goes on the war path and attempts to destroy everything alive that is not a plant.
While this is somewhat disheartening, it is also illuminating. I place this book alongside ElectroBoy on my bookshelf, and alongside The Omnivore's Dilemma, because it makes such a natural segue between the two.
William Alexander is truly obsessed with his garden. What ought to be a nice, pleasant way to pass time and to get some exercise and food turns into a dangerous obsession, resulting in damage to his finances, his health, his psyche, and his marriage.
It is amusing, in parts, however.
Read it, if only to see what lengths people will go to in order to save their hobby. It is an interesting study, really. Probably not a book I will read again, but it is one that I will think of from time to time.
Harkius
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Read "Killing Mr. Watson" first.......2006-12-20
This is the second book of a trilogy that begins with "Killing Mr. Watson," and ends with "Bone by Bone." If you read Killing Mr. Watson, and were fascinated by it, as many readers and critics have been, you'll be tempted to read the rest of the trilogy. Dead Man's River begins many years after E.J. Watson's death. Watson's son, Lucius, is struggling to reconstruct his father's life and death. You might have noticed in Killing Mr. Watson that the story, told by those who knew Watson, contains gaps, ambiguities, contradictions and mysteries. There's plenty of room for sequels.
Lucius finds some answers, and also uncovers new mysteries and contradictions. Along the way, you'll learn more about the many fascinating characters you first encountered as narrators in "Killing Mr. Watson." The final book in the trilogy, "Bone by Bone," tells the tale again, from the point of view of Mr. Watson.
The Mr. Watson trilogy is reminiscent of the well-known film, Rashomon, by Akira Kurosawa. It re-tells the same tale several times, from different perspectives. This is a gutsy kind of trilogy to write. A lesser author would burden the reader with repetition and excessive detail. Mathiessen, one of few authors ever to win one National Book Awards for fiction, and another for nonfiction, is up to the task, if anyone is.
Dead Man's River suffers from the usual problems found in the second book in a trilogy. It doesn't begin the story, nor end it, and it's nearly incomprehensible if you haven't read the first book. Consider, who would enjoy "The Two Towers," the second book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, if he or she had not first read "The Fellowship of the Ring," and did not intend to read "Return of the King"?
If, after reading Killing Mr. Watson, you're eager to know about Mr. Watson and the other pioneer families of that time and place, read the rest of the trilogy, in sequence. I think you'll be glad you did. I certainly am glad that I did. Matthiessen is a master of so many things -- pioneer history of Florida, diverse cultures, nature writing, environmentalism, character development, historical accuracy and detail, dead-on vernacular dialog, inventive style, and, in this trilogy, compelling mystery.
Also, in this trilogy, Mathiessen explores the nature of truth itself, as the same story is retold several times by people who all think they know the truth, though their understanding is filtered by their own perspectives, limited knowledge and vested interests.
On the other hand, if Killing Mr. Watson filled your cup, you might want to stop there. It works very well as a stand-alone novel.
Truthful fiction.......2006-08-24
Matthiessen's Killing Mr. Watson trilogy, of which Lost Man's River is the middle part, is to me an excellent example of how fiction describes reality better, more intensely, and in a way that is hard to explain, more truthfully, than, let's say, a factual report by a newspaper (or the police, for that matter).
Matthiessen's Mastery of Voice.......2005-06-25
I read "Lost Man's River" nearly 10 years ago, and finished the trilogy immediately following the release of #3. I've been a repeat reader of "Snow Leopard" and "Nine Headed Dragon River" and when I saw an unknown (to me) Matthiessen title I bought it on reflex, dug in, slogged, and followed in short-order to consume "Killing Mr. Watson" and wait impatiently for "Bone by Bone." When talking with anyone in whom I detect the slightest to be a reader I'm off and gone on the magnificience of Matthiessen's capacity to immerse the reader in the heat of the swamp and stubborn mind of man. It is an ultimate fly-on-the-wall experience. You buzz around, land for a moment, flash a restless, comforting blink through hundreds of lenses, and flashing with fear, hunger and frantic sleepy nervous energy, flick to another elbow, eyebrow, lampshade, another hall of mirrors inside someone's mind. And onto the next. Endless strings of POV. Not an easy read. It's at least as confusing as any of the most critical reviewers has let on. If your expectation is smooth narrative with crisp transitions and a baggage-free punchline at the end of a perfectly dissembled string of interleaving "Arthur Hailey-esqe" sub-plots, well, no, this isn't it. Peter hasn't named it "Lost Man's River" for nothing. It's the heat. Sweltering, oppressive, unrelenting, weaving inside and out of the mind's eye of dozens of characters, dozens and dozens by the time you get through all three books, each of whom is utterly certain that they've got the story right. This is a long yarn where everybody is telling the truth. Probably in much the same way, as say, Tom DeLay is certain that he is always telling the truth. Matthiessen's accomplishment as a craftsman is the voice, the vernacular. You learn to read with a drawl quick enough, which gets to be like a buzzing in your head. Books 1 & 3 are by the far easier reads. The experience of #2 being very similar to Thomas Pynchon's "V" where the candy for the mind is in the tone, weight and timbre of language, the music of the prose, where the narrative line is possibly only be found by surrendering your search. Matthiessen's achievement is brilliant, extraordinary, precious and impossibly rare.
The Mangrove Novel.......2004-12-04
Living in southwest Florida in the area of much of the locale of this story I was constantly reminded of the tangle of the mangrove forests which are typical of the coastal waters of this part of the world and the Ten Thousand Islands in particular. Virtually impenetrable. So was the confusing mass of cracker family detail piled on the reader. One has to force one's way through it and the result is a pretty thin story at the end. However the author's tidbits of history about the area and the spoilation of the Everglades is of interest for those having some knowledge of and curiosity about the subjects. I also felt that this New York born writer carries a lot of his Yankee baggage with him which causes him to unload the usual northern liberal unsympathetic, vulgar, racist stereotyping of southern life of the past on the readers. Way overdone.
Bogged Down in an Impenetrable Swamp.......2004-05-31
I sat down to read this book with a sense of eager anticipation, having greatly enjoyed Peter Matthiessen's first book in the Watson trilogy, "Killing Mr Watson". I put it down, nearly a month later, with a sense of profound disappointment. "Lost Man's River" is not a book in the same class as its predecessor.
"Killing Mr Watson" told the story of Edgar Watson's life in Southern Florida and his eventual death at the hands of a posse of his neighbours. "Lost Man's River" tells the story of Watson's son Lucius, a historian with both an academic and an emotional interest in finding out the truth about his father's life. (Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that, while Lucius's academic interest lies in finding out the truth about his father's life, his emotional interest lies in confirming his own preconceived ideas about his father's life). By the time of the events narrated in the book (around 1960) Lucius is an elderly man. The book follows his journeys around Florida and his meetings with the surviving few people who remember Edgar Watson, including his reunion with his long-lost brother Rob.
The sentimental journeyings of a septuagenarian historian do not make for an enthralling plot; indeed, the book has a loose, episodic structure and very little in the way of coherent plot at all. In "Killing Mister Watson" the characters were vividly drawn, especially the dominating figure of Watson himself. In "Lost Man's River" there is much less in the way of characterisation. Although Watson is an ever-present thought in Lucius's mind, he obviously cannot be introduced as a character in his own right as he has been dead for fifty years. Lucius is merely a bore, and the other characters are stiff and lifeless. The old people's reminiscences of the past are tedious and confusing, and tend to get bogged down in an excess of genealogical detail. In an attempt to add to the interest of the plot, Matthiessen provides a brief love-interest for Lucius in the form of a much younger woman, but this episode struck me as very unconvincing.
Not everything about the book is bad. There are some vivid descriptions of the natural beauty of the Everglades. There is also some sharp commentary about the way in which that natural beauty has been despoiled by the modern world, and about Southern racism. Unlike most of what has preceded it, the ending is genuinely gripping, as old feuds end in violence and Lucius makes an unwelcome discovery which forces him to reassess his view of the past. Unfortunately, to get to the ending one has to wade through some very tedious passages; like some of the characters, I often felt that I was bogged down in an impenetrable swamp.
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LOST MAN'S RIVER
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novel by the author of Killing Mister Watson
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Lost Man's River [Audiobook]
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on July 24, 2006. The length of the article is 623 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Bachelor Trap
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From the nationally bestselling author whose novels are “delightfully entertaining” (Philadelphia Inquirer) comes the provocative tale of a gentleman with a secret…and the independent lady he is determined to win in the ultimate game of love.
For Brand Hamilton, it’s a challenge most men would avoid at all costs: to seduce the ravishing, reluctant Lady Marion Dane while avoiding that long walk to the altar. But Brand, the baseborn son of a duke with a bright future in politics, has his own compelling reasons for courting Marion. . . .
With her impeccable bloodlines, Marion can’t help but question Brand’s motives. And Marion has her own problem to solve: an unseen enemy is stalking her, and Brand is the only one who can help. Desire is the wild card–an uncontrollable passion that catches them both by surprise. Now, with society abuzz over their unconventional courtship, they embark on a journey that will take them from the glitter and intrigue of London to a decades-old secret hidden in a far-off English village–and a love that could prove the most irresistible snare of all. . . .
Customer Reviews:
Not her best effort..........2007-09-18
This is by far, the worst book Elizabeth Thornton has ever written. It felt like entire chapters of the storyline and character development were missing. I didn't care about either of the main characters and only finished reading the book because I thought it had to get better at some point. I love Elizabeth Thornton's other books - but I was happy when this one was done.
Not as great as I had hoped...........2006-08-25
The story for me was a little dull and it took me a while to get into the story and the main characters: Brand and Marion. In fact, I was enjoying the secondary characters of Emily and Andrew's interactions together. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a book of their own. I just wasn't convinced of a romantic, loving relationship between Brand and Marion. However, I did get into somewhat ok mystery and I do have to say that the best part of the book is when the mystery was solved and who the person was behind it. Now that was totally unexecpted.
It's an ok book but not as good as some of the author's previous books.
Mystery Romance Novel.......2006-07-17
The Bachelor Trap by Elizabeth Thornton is more of historical murder mystery with splash of romance. Lady Marion has some trying to kill her because of childhood memory but she can't remember what that might be. Brand Hamilton makes a promise to Marion aunt to investigate the mystery. Brand and Marion find themselves in danger of a killer and in falling in love.
This was definitely NOT my cup of tea........2006-06-10
I disliked both the hero and heroine. They were two-dimensional, stiff-as-boards people.
Brand should have taken care of David Kerr - not Ash. I think if I were Marion, I would have fallen in love with Ash instead. Ash did more for her than Brand. As soon as Brand heard that David and Marion were alone together, he should have immediately run to her aid. Instead, he sends Ash. What was more important...his politics or his woman? Very disappointing for a hero.
The heroine is dull. And the dialogue borders on cheesy - "Love me, Brand, love me." Just didn't float my boat.
The love scenes are as boring as the characters. This book is much more mystery and far less romance. The whole mystery is absurd and not worthy of all the build up.
I cannot recommend this book.
Well-done romantic whodunit...a satisfying romance along with a good mystery.......2006-05-11
The disappearance of a woman a generation ago is at the heart of this well-written romance and mystery that kept me thoroughly engaged. Brand Hamilton is a respected owner of a string of newspapers and the illegitimate son of a duke. Now thirty-three years old, he is a workaholic who has spent his life proving his worth and has never taken the time for a serious romantic relationship. This changes when Lady Marion Dane arrives in London with her two younger sisters. Marion is the niece of Edwina Gunn, who was a mother figure to Brand in his youth. Brand recently received a letter from Edwina, which arrived shortly after her death, in which she asked Brand to look into the disappearance of her sister twenty years ago. Edwina always thought her sister ran away and eloped, but lately came to believe that she was murdered. Edwina thinks that Marion, who was seven at the time, may have inadvertently seen the murderer. Brand is at first skeptical of the claim, but when Marion is twice attacked and injured, he begins to reconsider the matter and suspects that she may be in danger.
Marion is a private person who, although smart, attractive and the daughter of an earl, discourages suitors and seems inexplicably set on spinsterhood. Brad believes - rightly - that there is something in her past that is preventing her from getting too close to any man and fully realizing her life. With a newsman's dogged determination, and his own personal charms, Brad sets out to break down her defenses. Little does he see that his own emotional defenses are in danger of tumbling, for Marion may be the soul mate whom he never thought he'd find. And Brand may be the knight in shining armor who can finally set her free.
I like the sweet, thoughtful and steadily evolving romance between this most charming couple. Their "pretend" engagement to further their investigation is delightful, for it sets up all sorts of interesting scenarios. And of course Brand and Marion are crazy about each other and welcome any excuse to spend time together. Brand is a particularly admirable and likable hero; Marion is very appealing as well, if occasionally too cautious. The love scenes are fairly tame - their intimacy comes more by way of potent dialogue - but nonetheless pleasing. The secondary characters also are a delight, particularly Marion's sister and Brand's brother, who have a budding friendship all their own. The mystery is a main component of the story and is well done and keeps the reader involved. I think this book is stronger than the previous one in the series. (I only wish this one had been given a more relevant title, as another reviewer mentioned.) The ending is very heart-warming and satisfying, and I will be sure to look for future books by Ms. Thornton.
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A delightful pair of light, fun reads.......2000-07-23
The problem, for me, with most anthologies or paired-up books is that so often I might like one story, but not the other(s). Not so with this duo of romantic comedies. Both THE BACHELOR TRAP by Kristen Gabriel and CUSTOM-BUILT COWBOY by Carrie Alexander feature sophisticated, witty prose that was both fresh and fun to read; fanciful, lighthearted plotlines; and endearing, appealing characters whose antics -- and dialogue -- brought several chuckles.
In THE BACHELOR TRAP, food critic Nina Walker has a Godzilla-sized wrestler-turned-"chef" on her case, big-time, for dissing his less-than-stellar culinary talents in her newspaper column. When she realizes "the Bonecrusher" is going to be one of the entrants in a major contest out-of-town -- a contest at which Nina is one of the judges -- she figures perhaps it wouldn't hurt to have a bodyguard, aka former boxing star -- and dedicated bachelor -- Jake Callahan. Except, Jake's Aunt Sophie, a fortuneteller wbo runs the Cafe Romeo, has read the pair's coffee grounds (no tea leaves for this lady!) and determined the pair is perfect for each other, even if the "pair" in question begs to differ!
Although the couple never "gets in on" within the context of the storyline (though not for lack of either opportunity or desire), there's a lot of sizzle between the gentle, protective Jake and the driven, smart-as-a-whip Nina. And this is one of the most perfectly paced books I think I've ever read -- each scene flows effortlessly into the next. I just zipped through this story.
And in Carrie Alexander's CUSTOM-BUILT COWBOY, what's city-born-and-bred, cowboy-crazed Grace Farrow to do when Shane McHenry, the man of her dreams, saunters into New York City to sell her a horse. . .and ends up stealing her heart? Of course, there's this minor problem of her having just accepted another man's marriage proposal, the perfect man for a Farrow. . .
Shane is one of the dearest heroes I've read in a while, strong and quiet and appreciative of Grace's ebullience and idiosyncracies. And while Ms. Alexander deftly handles Shane's introduction to the big city, she resists the common impulse to make the cowboy look like a yokel in his flashier surroundings. Shane has no problem holding his own in nutso New York! And Grace is adorable, despite -- or more likely, because of -- her penchant for getting herself in trouble without even trying. Only Grace could lose an engagement ring in such an "engaging" manner!
If you're looking for realism, forget it. Both books are pure fantasy, plot-wise -- especially as both take place within unrealistically short time-frames. These stories are strictly for fun, to make the reader smile and giggle and otherwise just have a good time reading. I enjoyed the heck out of both of them.
And by the way, both stories are the first in two miniseries, so in future months, we not only get to see Jake's two equally commitment-shy brothers fall prey to their aunt's coffee-ground readings, but Grace's two best friends -- her cohorts in the "Cowgirl Club" -- find their perfect cowboys, as well.
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A thrilling volume that reprints SUPERMAN (first series)#21-24, featuring Superman taking on the Prankster, investigating a murderon a college campus, confronting a modern-day Robin Hood, and more!
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Superman: Golden Age Greatness.......2005-02-20
The "Superman Archives" advances through the years, albeit slowly. While volume six is a little over two years old, there are other characters in the DC Archives who have been noticeably fast-tracked ("All-Star", "Justice League of America", and "Legion of Super-heroes"). Yet, DC seems to be spreading Superman out a bit over the course of four separate archive series. Consequently, each sub-series advances one volume every couple of years, although there's a new Superman archive out at least once a year.
Volume six comprises issues published in 1943. As expected, there's plenty of war propaganda, as Superman tangles with his fair share of Axis saboteurs and fifth columnists. However, the New Dealer Superman was already being slowly replaced by the more familiar Sci-Fi hero that most people are familiar with. Here Superman tangles with the Prankster, one of Superman's not-so super-villains. In a slightly hair-raising story, the Prankster copyrights the alphabet (I took copyright in law school, so my eyes stayed crossed the whole story). Superman also battles evil gnome creatures working at the behest of Hitler, as well as the incredible inventions of a mute genius. Of course, Superman also tangles with his share of gangsters, helping out a normally lucky do-gooder when his luck goes south, as well as solving the mystery of four criminals who are locked in a death-pact.
This volume features some fairly experimental material compared with previous volumes. The idea that perhaps Clark and Lois are more suited to each other than Lois and Superman is explored in "Surprise for Superman". Further, the concept of what would become the "Imaginary" or "Elseworlds" story is present in a formative stage. After Clark and Lois visit a stage production of a melodrama, Clark imagines a Superman story in the melodrama milieu.
Like all comic book stories from the golden age, you have to take this volume as you find it. The art work is pretty solid, if a little cartoony (featuring some nice work by Jack Burnley among others). Also the stories are mostly clever, entertaining, plot-driven affairs, mostly written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel.
Lots of fun, especially for it's nostalgia value. Just wish they'd move a little faster in completing this Archives series, as they have with "All-Star" and "Legion".
Book Description
Your heart has a prayer. Are you ready to answer it?
Somewhere beneath the surface of our wants and needs lies a deeper longing -- a yearning that connects us to who and what we are in our essential being. On YOUR HEART'S PRAYER, Oriah Mountan Dreamer takes you on an inspirational "journey into the soul's desires," bringing a new vision to what it is that matters most.
Addressing a lack of fulfillment felt all too commonly in our culture today, Oriah draws from her training in the tradition of shamanic medicine to show you how to recognize -- and respond to -- your soul's true calling. With poetry, meditations, exercises, and a blend of ruthless honesty and humor, she details the way to narrow the gap between how we want to live and how we're actually living. Join this gifted speaker as she shows you:
-The difference between craving and longing -- and the peace this distinction brings
-How to overcome the fear of following our longing, and trust in the "lights of encouragement" all around us
-Why "slow down" and "let go" are the two most important instructions in a spiritual life, and much more.
"One of the portals into spiritual awakening is our longing -- the ache that we have in the center of who we are," teaches Oriah Mountain Dreamer. On this long-awaited audio course, this celebrated visionary invites you to enter that gateway -- and the path to fulfillment it promises -- with YOUR HEART'S PRAYER."
Customer Reviews:
Personal.......2007-03-15
Sincere, moving, beautiful. Adds a more personal touch to the book, "What We Ache For."
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