| Way back when Vicki lived in Low Rise 9 (a dormitory),
she and her suitemate Nancy, a vegetarian and then disciple of the Beans
and Rice Diet, would often cook their own meals--a flabbergasting
concept at the time--in the rudimetary kitchen that the dorms boasted. One
particular day Nancy suceeded in burning a pot of beans whose pungent odor
long-afterwards graced the kitchen and lounge. So impressed was I by its
(the bean-smell) persistence that I wrote it an ode: |
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