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BRIEFLY SCRAMBLING BACK INTO Saturday night, when the yard man and I stopped to see my brother and his family in North Garden, Virginia.  This is the brother with the cat named Monkey and the persimmon tree.
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Have you ever eaten a freshly-plucked persimmon, Reader Dear?  The flavor is delicious.  If one has a fondness for little fleshy sacs,  one might also crave the texture.   But my first prize went to the tree itself, so artfully draped with fruit! 
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(Cutely-curled Monkey caught my fancy, too!)
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