Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.

Peter Bartis, at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, explains, “Bread and butter go together, a sign of unity.” He finds a citation in the seven-volume Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: “If two persons are walking and they come to ... “When walkers were separated and did not use this phrase or bread and butter,” DARE adds, “it was believed they would have a quarrel.

You know: sometimes, baby, I'm so carefree / With a joy that's hard to hide

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