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Be As Happy—and Grateful—As This Donkey

Be As Happy—and Grateful—As This Donkey

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Christopher Cook
Dec 14, 2023
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People complain about the traffic in Los Angeles, and rightly so. It is terrible. Isn’t LA traffic one of the layers in Dante’s depiction of Hell? I think it is. A punishment for vanity, perhaps?

I remember all too often being stuck in one spot, not moving—the exit in sight. Ten minutes… Twenty minutes… Oh look, we moved 30 feet. Thirty minutes… For the…

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