Have you ever seen a scorpion up close? ... They're really sinister-looking beasts. They were everywhere. When the kids came to visit, we had to tell them not to leave their clothes on the floor. We took over some poison from Smith Hardware, and now we rarely see them.

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I was looking in the back of The New York Times for ads for homes in New Hampshire, and there weren't any, ... but there was this scrunched-up photograph of a supposedly Palladian villa outside of Venice.

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