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A SMELLY THANK-YOU GIFT

I’ve been wracking my brain for a good thank-you gift to send to our vacation hosts. One candidate was a set of special soaps and lotions from a Nebraska entrepreneur ‘way out in the Sandhills of our state, near where the husband had been raised. A friend had sent me some a while ago and it really made my skin soft. It had an unusual ingredient: goats’ milk.

I had a small bottle of it in the car, and took it out to try it on, to refresh my memory. Was this worthy?

But from the back seat came this loud protest:

“What’s that smell?”

It was Maddy. “Just my hand lotion,” I replied.

“Well, it smells like Play-Dough!” she retorted. “Now my cheese stick doesn’t taste very good any more.”

Next idea. . . .