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Mary Poppins’ Carpetbag Reveals More Than She Does
In the original 1934 novel, Mary Poppins’ seemingly empty carpetbag produces ordinary belongings, peculiar medicine and an entire bed. Her possessions reveal far more than she is willing to explain.
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Zelda Gave Me Two Ingredients. I Tried to Turn Them Into Dinner
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Koko’s recipe in Breath of the Wild gives you pumpkin, meat and almost no useful instructions. I turned that idea into a properly autumnal stuffed butternut squash dinner.
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What Your Wardrobe Wants You to Read Next
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If you tell me what you would do with a damaged coat, whether you would learn a dress code or quietly bend it, and which outfit you would rather leave the house in, I can probably recommend you a book. Clothes do much more interesting work in fiction than merely telling us what somebody looks…
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I’d Been Dressing Like It Didn’t Matter. Apparently It Does.
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By mid-September I was in a rut, and my clothes had gone oddly passive with it. One deliberately dressed Wednesday felt different — before the quiz, before D&D, and before I had a neat explanation for why.
