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Chimes

Bliss Defined

If you were to dig through my bookshelves and the stacks of volumes piled in front of that library—as per Dr. Seuss’s oft-repeated words: “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks”—you would find one of my most prized possessions: amore than 1,900-page, goldenrod-colored hardcover with speckled edges and gleaming gold lettering: Funk & Wagnalls (Encyclopedic Edition) from 1978.

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