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Quick Pic: The Friday Feels

January 15, 2021 Beth Doyle

I love the older starch-filled buckrams you find in the stacks. You can drive a truck over it but you can’t destroy it. Unless you are mold hyphae. Then it is nothing more than a delicious snack.

Mold happens.

 




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