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I\u2019ve spent hours this afternoon and evening picking cherries, pitting them and putting them in the freezer. Not much to blog about that, but this sort of reflective work usually starts a poem cooking, so maybe there will be literary output as well as cherry pies in November.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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