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8 | May 2020 country's restaurants. It occurs to me that the fervent need for toilet paper must come from our populace having to learn to eat its own cooking. As a result, there is an intestinal adjustment through which many people are going which translates into a need for greater quantities of toilet paper. Our prayer is that those around us stay well, especially our patriarchs and matriarchs who are most susceptible to the worst effects of the COVID virus. At our home, we will not stoop so low as to pray for toilet paper. Still, it would be a falsehood to say that we don't care whether we find any or not in the grocery store. I have found myself looking in the storage closet of our apartment office, counting how many rolls there are and whether it will serve as an adequate backup if Susanna and I do not manage to break the code of securing toilet paper at the retail stores. Just in case we do not, we have started culling the threadbare towels and washcloths into a pile, and we have rehearsed our plans to scissor them into hand-sized cloth- squares. We have also expedited and effected our formerly secondary plan to obtain a new washer and dryer. It just seemed prudent to buy them now in the event that we return to protocol of my infant years where cloth diapers ruled. If even that it is not enough to get us through, then I expect that I will be making another visit to my friend's farmhouse in the near future. On my way out, I will be visiting his cupboard above his washing machine again, only not when he is looking. I promise him in this writing that I will replenish what I "borrow," but I cannot at this time say when that re-supplying will take place. If I must return to the farm for that purpose, rest assured that it will qualify as an essential service. CityView INFORM. INVOLVE. INSPIRE. www.CityViewNC.com | April 2020 T H I S I S M Y INFORM. INVOLVE. INSPIRE. CityView e majestic steeples of Fayetteville stand as symbols of faith and strength through all of life's challenges. Go to CityViewNC.com to order your 18" x 24" limited edition poster of our April cover. The cost of $29.99 includes tax, shipping, AND a one-year (12 issue) subscription to CityView! Posters will be mailed first class in a protective cardboard cylinder. All proceeds will go to help local schoolchildren through Cumberland Community Foundation's Fund for Student Emergency Needs.

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