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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This
is ragweed season here in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>,
and poor Sister Holly the Dolly is itching worse than usual. She gets an
Allertonic in the morning and the evening most of the year and that normally
keeps the itching to a minimum, but in certain pollen seasons like ragweed
season she also gets a Benadryl twice a day. And of course she does
everything in her power to keep from swallowing the Benadryl. In the
evening all three girls get a Benadryl wrapped in some lunch meat, it helps
Gracie and Anna breathe and not snore at night and Holly not itch. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>So this
evening we are having our little pieces of lunch meat (fat free ham to be
exact), they each get a small bite, then each gets her “pink pill”
and of course Holly spits hers out, and Anna spits hers out, too, which is
unusual. So I take another small piece of lunch meat and wrap it around
Holly’s pill and give it to her and she spits it out again, so now it’s
“cram it down your throat” time. Which I had to do three
times before we got it swallowed. After the first unsuccessful cram
Gracie starts bellowing at me because she does not allow anyone to hurt Holly
(I’m not hurting her but Gracie is not amused), and Anna’s pill is
lying in front of her on the carpet and Anna is watching me and Holly go round
and round while Gracie bellows. So finally Holly swallows her pink pill
and I turn to Anna, who looks at me and then immediately grabs the pink pill
off the floor and swallows it as fast as she can. Apparently watching me
cram the pill down Holly’s throat three times was all Anna needed to
see! So Anna got a special kiss and a good girl, and we finished our
ham. And now the girls have gone to bed and Mama can get some work
done. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=JanieHmkBold><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:JanieHmkBold'>Anita Woodrum</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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