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Mystic Nuns

Mystic Nuns

. . . and other Wednesday outtakes.

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Jun 25, 2025
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Removed from the home improvement column, which somehow veered into a paragraph about Stanley Tucci making faces about rustic food:

He adopted an expression of rapturous delight that made Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Theresa look like Bea Arthur in a bad mood.

Removed because it was a little too Dennis-Millery, I guess. I intended to provide a link to the scu…

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