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Eleanor Brown said
This “cartoon” is priceless!! I’m LOL just looking at it, having had “free range” chicken salad today and “cage free” fried eggs a couple of days ago!
Eleanor
Dr. Vollmer said
Thanks, Eleanor. I thought so too.