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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I think that you know what you wrote (below) is not part of our 'normal', 
though it is rational.  To see what you have described would be to go back 
more than a few years.  It was normal once, but I think we have almost 
forgotten.  I wish that reasonable but 'not-normal' vision of normal to 
return , also, Cathy ............................

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--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Cathy <goosecreekfarm AT gmail.com> wrote:


>  Hello Bob.  I've been quietly, cautiously wishing the economy back to
normal for quite a while. The kind of normal I've been wishing for is when
the fabric to make a dress costs less than a new dress, or when a tomato
grown locally costs less than a tomato shipped in from a thousand miles
away, or when the ingredients for a fast food meal cost less than a fast
food meal, or when it's cost effective to have an item repaired rather than
replaced.  I've been wishing quietly and cautiously because I am not looking 
forward to the necessarily painful situation required to
lead to a return to that kind of normal.  It would require that the price of 
dresses,tomatoes, fast food and many other items goes up up up.  I've not 
wished that kind of pain on anyone--not myself either, since I'm woefully 
unprepared for it.