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Famous in paradise

Welcome to 2025, the year of celebrity at Lush Places. After careful thought, lasting as much as five minutes, Michele and I have decided that we are to be world-famous celebrities this year, at least within the confines of our 12-acre sheepand-pear paradise.

And why shouldn’t we be? The word “celebrity” is so completely drained of meaning these days we can’t see why we shouldn’t be celebrities like so many

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