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A Farewell to Butts

Relax, Tina Belcher - not the human kind!

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Sally Shideler
Aug 17, 2023
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I was sitting at a small iron table in the mild sunshine, on a cobblestone street outside the Café Mozart in Passau, Germany, nursing a teacup of shimmering, rich coffee as the Danube flowed blue in the distance. Surely strains of the waltz emanated from up the high riverbanks, near the palace where I went to school…

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