- jim Young "'Long past?' inquired Scrooge. 'No, your past,' replied the ghost." - Charles Dickens As I pulled the fragile 600 page hardcover scrapbook from its shelf, bits and pieces of its brittle pages fell to the floor as leaves gently falling to the ground in the autumn. The binding had freed many of its pages from the spine. The pages are numbered in the top corner which will help me ensure they at least stay in order, although the scrap book is a random collection of mostly newspaper and magazine articles that don’t really call for any kind of chronological order, save the occasional two or three related clippings that might flow from one page to the next. I tried to remember where I had acquired this look into the past. I was pretty certain it wasn’t a garage sale acquisition and initially assumed, and later confirmed, it was among boxes of treasures entrusted to me after my cousin Ross had passed. Ross, my first cousin once removed, to be more precis
NOTE: 25 minutes is way too long to cook this.
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