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It’s either one of these two, I cannot remember which one was acquired first:
Within a very short while after getting married, I purchased a set of dinnerware, and separately, a rice cooker. The former is extremely sturdy and well-crafted, because decades later, every single one of its dishes is still intact. The lid to the rice cooker lost its handle years ago, but other than that, it has served us reliably and faithfully as much today as the first time we used it. (My wife being Asian, rice is truly a staple of daily sustenance in our family, and our children were raised with more affinity for rice than I ever had before marrying their mother. The rice cooker has been in daily use for the better part of every single week for all these years.)
When we were first married, it would be two and a half years before we began to have children, so in the beginning, the tiny rice cooker that serves about six people was sufficient in size for us.
In later years, we have purchased or received as gifts other rice cookers, some larger, fancier and more elaborate than the first one, bit not one of them has met my wife’s approval and after a short time in the rotation, each was soon shelved in deference to the original one.
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Wow!
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