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THIS IS WHAT I WISH I'd have done today, Reader Dear: I wish I'd have written eleven checks for eleven dollars and eleven cents each and sent them to eleven needy causes. And I was thinking, too, how nice if I'd given eleven flowers to each of eleven friends, and eleven kisses to eleven loved ones. Why didn't I sing eleven songs? I wish I would have. And baked eleven cookies, each with eleven chocolate chips. I wish I'd pulled them from the oven in the morning at eleven-eleven, and eaten them with The Yard Man at eleven-eleven at night. I could have told him, "Eleven let you have the extra cookie!" Eleven times I thought to do eleven things. But...(sigh)...eleven times I let the chance go by.

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