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• "But it feels different," I complained.
• "That's because it's oatmeal soap," she explained.
• "Oatmeal soap? What do you mean, oatmeal soap?"
• "It's a new soap I found at the Bath and Body store. It's something new. It's good for you, use it."
• I immediately began to search my mind (I almost got lost in the process) for information concerning oatmeal. I knew, for example, that oatmeal was a food. I like a bowl of hot oatmeal in the morning with sliced bananas. And oatmeal raisin cookies go perfect with a nice hot cup of coffee. However, I could not find any information in my brain collaborating the fact that you can wash with oatmeal.
• I looked at the bar of oatmeal soap and did not know if I should wash with it or eat it. And, where do you put the sliced bananas?
• To make matters worse, if that could be possible, I discovered in the bathtub a new bottle of shampoo. It was called Sweet Apple Shampoo. There is nothing like a fruity-tooty bubble bath to bring out the manly spirit in a person.
• I did not know if I should dry off and be put into the refrigerator.
• This incident only illustrated to me the fact that we live in a very complicated

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