Dear Larry: Recently, our next-door neighbor of several years died. Our relationship with him and his wife was friendly, but not close. Mostly, we just waved and greeted one another out in our yards.

My wife recommended baking cookies and taking them and a sympathy card to the family gathered at the house. We also had some fresh fruit — cantaloupe and watermelon — which I cut up and added to the cookies.

As I was about to carry the food to them, I suddenly felt a wav ...

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