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Out Of The Kindness Of My Heart

 My father likes honey in his tea.      Today, out of the kindness of my heart, I went to a farmer's market and bought him some raw honey, straight from the bee hive. I even bought him a flavor I knew he liked, Orange Blossom. I didn't know honey came in different flavors, but that's neither here nor there. Well, that's not quite true. The honey's  here , and my money's  there .      Later that evening, as my wife is making his tea, she tells him how I drove to the farmer's market just so he could have a local honey for his tea.      "You'll like it, dad," I told him. "The guy I bought it from harvests the honey himself, and it's a lot sweeter than store bought honey."       The honey contains no extra ingredients, and it's not cheap. It's also supposed to be good for your allergies. I tell him all that, and more. Except for the "it's not cheap" part.  ...
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Funny Shades of Grey--chapter seven

Chapter Seven    The first thing I notice is the smell.   I never should have eaten at the House of Broccoli for lunch before our first date.   Christian leads me through a corridor away from the Bat-Cave. At the end of it is a door. He opens it. I try to peek through, shivering in antici... PAYshun .   Hmm... another door.   Beyond that one is an aperture. After the aperture, an egress. Once through the egress, we come upon--not a door--but a gate. He opens the gate, and, once through it, he bends down and opens a hatch on the floor, like the one in the movie Gravity , but with oxygen. Through the hatchway, I see an opening.   But an opening to what?   I have no idea, but I must find out.   "Christian! Where are you taking me?" I ask, putting away my thesaurus.   "Did you have broccoli for lunch?"   I nod.   "Jeez," he says, holds his nose, and enters the portal.   I follow him into a large room. It ...
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