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A Typical Parental Exchange

The Mom: It’s just a little dusting of snow, dear. Surely it can’t be THAT hard to find where the plant blew off the porch and landed?

The Dad: It’s more like half a foot of snow and I’m looking for a white planter that blew off a white porch and contained a white flower plant. At midnight. In the dark.

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