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This is amazing, really. You had me from go with "the tip of the island was visible, smoldering like a cigarette in the mouth of someone before a firing squad. What was up against the wall was the people we were the day before." 😂 + 😱 I gasped at your shout-out to Sarcone's bakery!! When we were first married, we lived just a few blocks from there and were regulars. My husband now bakes his own sourdough bread - really.

Impressed you actually made a Corsi-Rosenthal box; I only got so far as to sending a link to the instructions to myself while obsessively updating my weather app while the AQI was 300+ at the beginning of the month.

The audio of the middle school lockdowns is breathtaking and heartbreaking and infuriating.

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Thanks! Sarcone's makes good bread. No one makes sourdough here. That hipster Collingswood bakery that I won't return to makes it once a week, and I'm not driving 30 minutes to wait in line and have it run out. I'd rather make my own from a starter I buy from some sourdough guru out in SF.

Making the box is not tough, but it's $80 and it will probably sit in the corner and mock you while we never get a bad smoke day again.

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But you’ll have done your part to keep that bad air away! And for that I thank you. Longshot but have you eaten at Sagami?

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LOL! We have tried to eat at Sagami but showed up and they wanted a reservation. But we'll try again.

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Funny - we’ve been eating there since 1990, when we lived in Philly. Used to stop for dinner on our way home from NYC. Back then, they *didn’t* take reservations. It’s much better now that they do. Definitely worth another attempt. It’s our fave Japanese place, hands down.

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How are they on sushi rolls? I like traditional but I know someone who prefers them fried and crunchy

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All their sushi is amazing. I don’t associate them with the trendy sort of rolls like our neighborhood place here in Baltimore. But they may very well have that. It just feels like a real restaurant you’d go to in Japan. Is their menu online?

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