"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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I'm going to take it out of the bag here.

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I'm thankful that, when I dropped a tool bag, I wasn't in space.

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He was picked out of an identification parade during which all the men were asked to repeat: "I'm sorry about this, just put the cash in the bag".

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"My husband teases me that I'm too vigilant when I buy turkey and put it in a plastic bag and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart, away from everything else, " Undurraga said.

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And I'm far more likely to take tips from the boy carrying a Snoopy golf bag than I am from my husband.

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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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Well into his 60s the senior Gilbert followed a strict regimen to maintain his vigor, running a mile every morning, then working out in a basement gym with Indian clubs and a punching bag before arriving at his factory no later than 7:30 a.m.

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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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