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The Yellow House On the corner of first and no where, is a place that serves biscuits and gravy. They have grits and liver with onions. Wednesday night, all you can eat fish, mostly cat… Frog legs, when they can catch them. Oh, and they make the biggest cinnamon roll, you have ever dreamed possible to be fit in an oven… The bread for toast is made fresh. Big Bill does that. He works in the back. A retired vet, don’t ask… he will not talk of it. Well, at least not yet, but we all hug him often, when the storm(s) come, and they do come, even when it is sunny out. On days like that, the bread is not made fresh, but we do not mind. We simply make pancakes and waffles and sell day old pie. No one cares… we love each other here. The house of sunshine, where friends… were strangers, but that was yesterday.

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Date: 11/12/2019 5:00:00 AM
Your Yellow House is one that tempts me to visit, Ann! It sound welcoming and the company there is one worth mixing with. I love how you treat with understanding the subject of Bill, the retired vet, and his 'off days'; a poem that delivers much between the lines. ~ Regards // paul
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Ann Foster
Date: 11/12/2019 11:39:00 AM
There is so much between, if we could crawl through with a large sack, we could bring back... truth... and maybe people would be.... alas... Blessings on your day... have the very nicest, brightest... Ann
Date: 11/10/2019 8:54:00 PM
Sounds like the friendlest, most wonderful 'roadside diner' one could ever hope to find! Smiles, Gershon
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Date: 11/10/2019 9:37:00 PM
Coffee... writers and poets meet at 6:15 sharp... we get the window overlooking the sea... there is a cliff and birds... there are sometimes dolphins... but we always go home by 10:00 to the deserts, seas of sand... quiet to write there...

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