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love to eat; I'm just going to have to marry a gourmet,<br />

that's all."<br />

A clump of cards in hand, Bredforet poked his<br />

head through the door, looked around, and said, "We<br />

should have gone out."<br />

"Just a few more minutes," his wife vowed. The<br />

door swung shut.<br />

She sawed a head of lettuce into quarters and<br />

spooned mayonnaise onto each. The two women<br />

surveyed their handiwork. "It doesn't look very<br />

promising, does it?" sighed Mrs. Bredforet.<br />

"Don't talk like that. They can take it or leave it,"<br />

admonished Dr. Deeds. "If they don't want this, let them<br />

eat pizza. They're old enough to feed themselves. Men<br />

just pretend to be helpless."<br />

Mrs. Bredforet giggled. "Why, yes! Let them eat<br />

pizza. Why, yes."<br />

On Glover's Lane the Sniffells dined with the<br />

Hayeses, because the Hayeses had dined with the<br />

Sniffells in May. In the kitchen, June Hayes leaned on<br />

the counter with her fingers pressed against her eyelids.<br />

Her little radio above the sink played the waltz from

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