9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for September 29, 2001

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"Well?" "What do you think?" "My mind goes back to an epoch when great lizards strode the planet and the earth convulsed in fiery volcanic outpourings: before the continents, as we know them had formed." "And it was that time that I put on my first pair of hip huggers, and my mother said she to me what I swore I would never say to my daughter but nevertheless am about to utter." "Never mind. I'll ditch them." "You've saved us both a lot of pain."