Word: dandelion
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...reached over for a dandelion, and just squished it and spread the juice all over my shoes, my new shoes, and said welcome to the dandelion club...
...everyone else, and it was kind of a team thing, and I've still got the shoes and they've still got the dandelion streaks, right there on the white swirls...
Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent...
...welcome us, the women, Michiko and Fuyuko, served barley tea, buns stuffed with pigweed, pickles, garden strawberries and grape juice from the vineyards. We sat on the earth in the orchard under an old peach tree. I pulled a dandelion and told how Americans eat the spring leaves. There was much giggling, so much that the women covered their mouths. "We eat everything," Daimaru said. "But this, is this not a weed?" When I pulled a plantain leaf and said it also was a good spring green, they were beside themselves with laughter. After things calmed, Daimaru said, "Next April...
Books everywhere are falling apart. Acids in the ink and the pulp devour the pages. The paper crumbles, powdered words in a few generations will blow away like dandelion fluff. Some computer-literate great-grandchild will hold the empty, mortal binding in his hands as if it were Yorick's skull...