Word: overeaten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood in Brooklyn. They inhabit a world where no one ever moves away, women get married at 18 or 19, and everyone knows everyone else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable...
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