Not so very often I recall the following words of advice from my dear old mother, a tiding of the heart delivered straight from parent to child.
"Whatever you do," she would instruct, "be sure to change your underwear."
For what if I forgot and then met with some gruesome accident? What if the nurses were to haul me up on the operating table, scissor off my jeans, only to find . . .
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