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      <image:caption>A Lazy Susan hides behind the small door at a convent where sweets are purchased from an “invisible nun”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coming down Bear Mountain on a leaf-strewn road approximately one kilometer from the top</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Me with Mr. Dyson and his wife Imme at the picnic after our trail run in New Jersey</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The rare leafless ribbon orchid (named for the flat root system) seen here with seed pods</image:caption>
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