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Jul 15Liked by Laura Bassett

I loved the garbage disposal story. I'm Cecette's age and when I was growing up in suburban Philadelphia, we didn't have garbage disposals. Instead, we separated food waste, which we called garbage, from trash, and put it outside in an underground stainless steel drum. Garbage men came around once or twice a week and emptied the drum into a truck on behalf of a company that sold food waste to pig farms. The house I live in now still had the lid to its outdoor garbage receptacle when I bought it. I kept the thing and have it behind an azalea bush. https://www.wgbh.org/lifestyle/2019-06-19/when-rubbish-went-curbside-and-garbage-went-underground

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Jul 15Liked by Laura Bassett

And “as the world turns” - the USA is continuing to prove that “you can’t make this shit up”.

Truly. If there ever was a crazier year in politics I musta slept through it. I wish I could sleep through this one, and wake up in November with the US having magically healed thyself.

Nope. Instead I will have to peer through my fingers every time I open my phon in the morning, wondering what new shit this day will bring.

Please let it be over. Please.

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