It might as well have put a giant "mug me!"

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Ms. MARIA RAY(ph): My name is Maria Ray and my ex-sister-in-law gave me a mug, which was given to her, which was a recycled gift from somebody to her.

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See the happiness mug on the table beside me?

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Now, with every mug I made, a monitor labeled me confused, impressed, absorbed.

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Another sent me a "Price is Right" coffee mug.

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My first reaction was that this was yet another phishing scam, designed to take me to a site where I would hand over my Twitter credentials like a mug.

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Now if you will excuse me, I have to get another cup of coffee in my Philadelphia Flyers coffee mug.

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She supported me in whatever I did and was convinced that everything I produced was brilliant, even the lopsided coffee mug and the asymmetrical pillow.

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