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These thoughts put a smile on my face, thought I’d pass the smile on to you. 1.

A little woman called Mount Sinai Hospital. She said, 'Hello, darling, I’d like to talk with the person who gives the information regarding your patients.

Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack’s sermons.

Thistle. The name itself brings up all kinds of derogatory images in my head. Thistles are bad. At least that is the knee jerk reaction for landowners who spend hours and a lot of money trying to eradicate the darn things.

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

A bacterial infection. I hadn’t thought of a bacterial infection. I was sure, with my internet medical degree, that I had a viral infection, the flu or Covid. My symptoms were a low-grade fever and fatigue, and occasionally, when I would cough, a short-lived headache. All the things I had when I had Covid…so I was sure it was viral.

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She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, 'But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!' I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper goodbye.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on Oct. 24 in the church.

Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services.