no. 124: diane
This morning I rolled out of bed declaring that I was off to make the dogs some Steak Diane, but neither D – for whom this dish is surely named – nor I could remember what the hell Steak Diane actually was.
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no. 118: quarterly
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no. 117: one kind of bread
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no. 116: really sharp pencils
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