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CAMILLA A. HARDING

Amissville

Snoop who?

Maxie what?

Recently, I, a Virginia octogenarian

stumbled into the Tum-of-the-Century culture. On being advised by a Baltimore friend where go to for a glaucoma operation I was told, “of course, the Wilmer Institute glaucoma department chief-surgeon at Johns Hopkins.”

My friend, in struggling to make his point irrefutable, went on, “He’s so much better than any local specialist. He’s Mozart compared to-to-to... (stuttering as he grasped for a persuasive simile) to Snoop Doggy Dogg!”

Knowing who Mozart was but not knowing who Snoop Doggy Dogg is, I did not understand the comparison; therefore I decided to search out Snoop Doggy Dogg. But how?

The local Wal-Mart has a huge collection of cassettes. In that store’s music department I found a 1,000 tapes, but no attendant, only a 12year-old girl customer with her younger sister.

Bewildered I chanced asking if she knew of a Snoop Doggy Dogg. “Oh yes, he wraps!” As I looked for the package wrapping desk, I was relieved when she said, “I bet

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