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copy: “Ingredients for life,” said the backside of the truck. They mean food, but really food is only 1 ingredient of life. Life has so many more *ingredients* **such** as pain, happiness, laughter, joy, _tears,_ and smiles. Life also has hard work, easy play, sleepless nights, and sunbathing by the *ocean.* Love, hatred, envy, self-assurance, and fear could be just down aisle 3 ready to be bought when needed. How I wish I could pull *ingredients* like these off shelves in a store.

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title: He wasn't bitter that she had moved on but from the radish.

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copy: It was supposed to be a dream vacation. They had planned it over a year in advance so that it would be perfect in every way. It had been what they had been looking *forward* to through all the turmoil and negativity **around** them. It had been the light at the end of both their tunnels. Now that the dream vacation was only a week away, the virus had stopped all air travel.

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title: The beauty of the African sunset disguised the danger lurking nearby.