As a lifelong admirer of European culture who has garnered many a goosebump from reading about great European explorers, I take no pleasure in this harsh indictment.

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Also, I take excessive pleasure in returning several months' worth of our own empties at once, feeding them into our supermarket's can, glass and plastic recycling machines and departing with a heroic amount of cash sometimes as much as seven or eight dollars that I can spend on anything I want.

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My walls and shelves are covered with souvenirs from all over the world, but none of them remind me as vividly of the pleasure I take from traveling as these small, quirky vignettes.

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Hand in hand, my husband of 35 years and I have learned to take pleasure in the everyday: wandering through the woods in our area, inhaling the scent of our garden, watching the fluttering butterflies.

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Recently, though, I have been investigating flats in London for a trip (business and pleasure) I need to take in November with my family.

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