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WE DRAW THE BOXES

Once, as a young girl, I was cooking with my grandmother.  She was preparing a ham for baking and towards the end of her preparation, she cut the ends off of the ham before placing it in the baking dish.  I remember asking why she cut off the ends of the ham.  She replied that she didn’t know why, just that it was what her mother had taught her, and she had always done it that way.  It wasn’t until

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