"Right now I'm walking and I'm carrying a reusable grocery bag -- I've just been to the grocery store, " she tells CNN by cell phone from New York.

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I'm thankful for the 3-ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

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Lest you think I'm one of those injustice-collecting urban paranoids with a tinfoil hat and a plastic bag containing a brisket and a manifesto in tiny handwriting, a New York crazy who has a problem with everybody and everything, I should mention that I grew up with -- and adored -- a dog of my very own.

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Then he and Fido could have dreamed of the Ritz as they rested their tootsies back home, just as the sight of my ill-gotten Argentinean laundry bag has me fantasizing about dancing the tango at 2 a.m. in the grand ballroom of the Alvear Palace.

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