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Written for this week’s Writing Challenge at the Daily Post. Prompt: Leftovers. Thanks for reading. Visit the Writing Challenge for more wonderfully bloggy posts–fact and fiction–in response to the prompt. ? ? At my mother’s funeral, an older man, goateed and wearing a beret (the sight of which made me…
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Physics and Art 