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\u00a0[at the Old Depot Restaurant, the menu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0offers a “You Get It All” garden salad]<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How can I not want that, I wonder,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

recalling how my first wife\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

would warn, “you can’t have it all,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you’re chasing rainbows, you know,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

nobody can have it all.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

And now this menu–<\/span><\/p>\n

only, as I read the description,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder if perhaps I <\/span>could<\/span><\/i> get it all,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but without the anchovies\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and jalapeno peppers, and then\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I begin to wonder what that might mean:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

Wanting it all, I think,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

wanting<\/span><\/i> it all–<\/span><\/p>\n

that’s one thing, but aren’t there always\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

anchovies and jalapeno peppers?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And, I think, if I really understood that\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I might have an answer for my first wife,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

though we’re long since parted,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and I still want it all\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

like Adam and Eve, there in the garden,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

naked and hungry before the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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