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A cookie cutter is a blade bent into a closed loop.
That is the entire object - a strip of thin metal formed into a shape and joined,…
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The drawer of old keys everybody's family has is mostly useless, and the reason is not that the locks are gone. It is that those keys were never meant…
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The rolling pin in my family is marble, which I thought was a strange affectation until I was told where it had been kept - on the cellar steps,…
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The tiny glass dishes in the back of my family's china cabinet, each about the size of a thimble and each with an absurd little spoon, were explained to…
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A plowed field is not a field you can plant.
What the plow leaves is overturned slabs with voids underneath - lumps, ridges and air pockets, which is…
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There is a plow leaning against a shed near where I grew up, and the part that catches the light is a curved steel surface about the size of…