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Jul 2Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

If you'd held a gun to my head, I'd have said that Melton Mowbray was an actor (Alan's elder brother, to be sure, who played a lot of butlers) or a kind of cheese.

Lovely essay (as always), Elizabeth, thank you!

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Thank you, dear Benjamin! (Melton Mowbray is famous for its stilton, as well as its pork pies.)

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Jul 2Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

Thanks as ever for the shot-in-the-arm of your writing. I also have British in-laws, who have taken to Thanksgiving with gusto. Not so much the 4th of July.

America already kicked one king out. I guess we’ll do it again if we have to.

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Jul 2Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

I’d be prayin hard, if I were a prayin kind of person. Seems the whole world is turned on it’s head.

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Jul 3Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

Oh please please let this delightful amusement park find its way into a short story.

I need to know if your mother-in-law made a turkey and did you tell the old english delightful tales of New England pilgrims.

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Jul 2Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

What, indeed, are we going to do.

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Jul 2Liked by Elizabeth McCracken

O say can you see what’s happnin to us?!

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