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...where we cooked everything in the refrigerator, turning out mouthwatering dishes like Creole seafood gumbo, stuffed bell peppers and oyster dressing. Although my grandmothers and mother passed away years ago, their spirits continued to preside over the preparation of holiday feasts. Their pots, pans and humble cooking utensils were precious symbols of their legacies as our family matriarchs. Their love was profoundly expressed through the rich, spicy delicacies delivered to all who came to visit during the holidays. Sadly, their kitchens and the dinners that graced them are no more. All the tangible memorabilia that represented our family's history...
...people like Marguerite Simon, 82. She worked hard cleaning other people's homes, earning just enough to buy into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods. She was wearing rubber gloves, rubber boots and a paper face mask last week, cleaning black amoebic splotches of mold off precious family treasures. Inside the small house, her well-made furniture, with its carved arms and curved legs, lay scattered as if some giant Mixmaster had been whirling away. Sitting on her tiny porch, she managed a laugh. "You have to laugh," she said, "but it don't come from...
...Because when it comes to The Game, nothing is more precious than a year’s worth of bragging rights...
...swivel your hips. I could almost hear his sigh of exasperation. Instead I swung hard, too hard, and completely missed. I tried again, and this time skulled it, sending the ball ricocheting off a few boulders before it disappeared. With admirable stoicism, Afzal dispatched two caddies to find his precious ball in the dry scrub. "Maybe you try putting," he said...
...that office again, this time under a pile of paperwork and with precious weeks to do months worth of recruiting, the man with the answers had to ask a question...