My elderly neighbor, Mr. Dalen, once asked me to pick up a few plastic chairs for him — but not just any kind. He wanted the old-fashioned ones with a drainage hole right in the middle of the seat. I shrugged it off as a strange request, but I went looking anyway. When I couldn’t find that exact style, I...
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