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A Case of the Human Condition: Our Christmas Candy Is — Gone!

January 4, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Our Christmas candy is all gone. Gone. Like a lot of good things in life — mothers, fathers, old friends, colleagues. Read more.

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Living to 100 — and then some: My grandmother lived till a few weeks short of her 100th birthday. My plan was to do the same.  Read more.

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