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2003-07-25 - 11:33 a.m. An excerpt from "14,000 Things to be Happy About." By Barbara Ann Kipfer Page 372 -Lengths of knotty pine for a paneled effect -Men's collarband shirts -Kentucky: Blue grass, the Derby, limestoned valleys, Cumberland Gap -Pancake shops -Sending Christmas cards -Sand dunes and thickets -Mandarin rice -Coonskin caps -Sending someone an article you know will be of special interest -Reno divorces -Santa's Village, Dundee, Illinois -Want-ad weeks -Bentwood chairs and hanging lamps -Paisley -Finding the start of a roll of toilet paper -Ivory animals -The silver screen -Looking for the best and enjoying -Cardigan sweaters -Proms, gardenias, and moonlit dance halls on the lake -"God Bless Our Home" wall mottoes -Root beer floats made with homemade ice cream every Fourth of July -Noodle-O soup -Showing a dog -"A nickel for all the times the ice melted waiting for him to come home" ...........I can't remember the last time I leaped off the toilet when I found the start of a new roll of toilet paper, but I guess it's the simple pleasures that always get you......
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