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Given all that my wife orders online, and despite her saying we wouldn't get another cat after we lost hers two months ago, I fully expect to find this at the door at some point.
Whenever I hear white, middle-aged Americans pining for the "good old days," I want them to remember that this is the sort of thing which was considered normal in 1950's America: