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A few years ago, my Husband and I lost a dear friend, Patrick.  The stories of Patrick's love of history, art, literature, Russia, Orthodoxy and his church -- not to mention his eccentricities -- could go on for days.  My Husband and I helped sort through his house after he was gone.  In the kitchen, stuck to the inside wall of the kitchen cabinet, with a myriad of papers strewn around that cabinet shelf, was a half legal sized yellow envelope, full of index cards.  On each index card was a handwritten recipe.  I did not make the final decisions for his belongings, so I merely wrote with a thick black Sharpie marker: recipes, please do not throw away - Elizabeth.  When we received some of Patrick's things, these recipes and 2 small cookbooks were included for me.  I nearly cried, I was so deeply touched; and I carefully put all of his recipes in a binder, keeping the yellow envelope in the front folder of the same binder....

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