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outside and hauled the loot in and

stuffed it in the coat closet.

About 2:00 in the morning, when

my wife and daughter were asleep, I

snuck into the bedroom to retrieve one

of my wife’s stockings. Now, I must

say that I grew up with almost all

brothers, so I knew very little about

women or women’s things, so, in the

dark, when I reached in her drawer and

pulled out a nylon, I figured it was as

good a stocking as any. I stumbled my

way back to the coat closet and started

stuffing oranges into it as fast as I

could. Every once in a while, I would

reach into it to see if it was getting full,

but the level of oranges never seemed

to rise. At one point, my wife stirred,

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