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sarafina's avatar

Are half breads those marbled ones, with darker and lighter dough?

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It is always a stretch for the majority of Americans to empathize with Europeans who complain about 80 degree temperatures, because that is Spring weather here. I remember back in 1980 we had a bizarre hot spell in July where the daytime temps were over 110 and the nighttime temps did not fall below 100 for 12 days in a row, and hundreds of people died because they were poor and elderly and had no air conditioning, and I was commuting 70 miles every day in a car without AC and with vinyl seats. I remember coming home from work the first day and the toilet seat in my bathroom was too hot to sit on because I had forgotten to turn on the window AC before I left that morning (that was a new experience, you don't forget something like that). Simultaneously people in England were passing out in the streets because the temp there was slightly over 80 degrees. I get it intellectually, of course, and I have great sympathy, but true empathy is somewhat lacking.

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