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Readers
Know Best
The “Reader-Tested Life
Advice” was the best part
of your advice feature. After
four decades of chronic
disease, two organ trans-
plants, and some of life’s
more common turmoils,
what gets me through is the
belief that “life is a series
of unpredictable events.
You gotta go through them; Your tips in “How to Get a Person on the
you can’t go around them.” Phone” work! I was frustrated with the United
Airlines automated system, so I pressed zero
S. Cra ig, Fort Collins, Colorado
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Animal Antics
Joanna Powell’s article
about pets rescuing
their owners remind-
ed me of something
that happened to my
father a long time
ago (“Hero Pets”).
He had left a pan on
the stove and dozed
off, and it caught fire.
His parakeet, which
was free to come and go
from its cage, knew
enough to fly down to the “This isn’t helping your reputation.”
floor, where it was less smoky,
and walk over to my dad. The chirp-
ing woke my father, who quickly put Wouldn’t it be great if we could pay
out the fire. Smart bird, huh? less for items by cutting back on the
N orma J. Ga ge, Custer, Michigan packaging? Why do shoes need a
box? Or even toothpaste tubes, for
Waste Not that matter? Why can’t canned items
Here in Debord, Kentucky, we’ve be sold in reusable jars that go back
started operating a power plant that to the manufacturer? Thanks for this
gets all its energy from municipal forward-thinking story.
solid waste (Quick Study: “Where Trudy Lundy, Spokane, Washington
Our Garbage Goes”). We send noth-
ing to landfills. Ground-up glass is A Father’s Legacy
used in our concrete-block manufac- I was moved to tears as I read David
turing plant. Steel, iron, and alumi- Mas Masumoto’s “The Growing
num are sent to metal recyclers. And Season,” about his gentle, quiet
we use clean steam to power over father. I, too, had a father who loved
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