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Stuff! It's all around us, surrounding us like a viral menace.

You can find it:

-- In the closet;
-- On shelves;
-- Closing in on you in your office.

In an effort to clear out some of this "stuff," here's a look at a few things I've been meaning to write about that have been piling up, taking up valuable, but limited, space in my office.

Some people may say romantic comedies give us false expectations about love and romantic relationships, but I say there’s as much truth as fantasy in this genre of films about finding true love.

The “something for everyone” label definitely applies to the 2009 Topps Allen & Ginter release. Here are the details:
Base Cards (350 subjects)
PARALLELS
Mini Parallel – Original-sized version of base card (1:1)
Allen & Ginter Back (1:5)
Allen & Ginter Black Bordered (1:10)
Allen & Ginter No Number (limited to 50)
Bazooka Back (hand #’d to 25)

My friend and I sat and talked about her husband, who had died a few months earlier. Since I wasn’t able to attend the memorial service, she shared the day’s events in detail, needing to tell the story again.

Over the course of the weekend, she’d show me pictures from their past, what she’d done to preserve his memory in the house, and the container of his ashes.

Ah, the sweetness of young love...

Fans of the Muggle and wizarding worlds are in for a lighter turn to the story of Harry Potter, the boy with extraordinary powers destined to fight the evil Lord Voldemort, in the latest installment of the popular movie franchise, “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince.”

Louis A. Heilbron can remember going to the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, Calif. with his grandmother and cousins as a child in the 1950s. The kids would get bait from a little store by the pond, catch some trout, and go to the lodge restaurant, where the fish would be cooked for dinner.

It's been our link to the world! Our trip overseas as we listen to broadcasts from France, Germany, Italy and, of course, the good old BBC. But it's fading fast.

Jess McCann started her own sales company after college, teaching her employees sales techniques to peddle wares for local telecom and office supply companies. Today, she’s using sales principles to coach women on how to successfully attract and get the men they want.

I wish I could have seen him perform. Even though he may have morphed from a freakish talent into a freak show, he was still a force of nature. I hope he can finally now find some peace.

John Easterling has always had a fascination with treasure hunting.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in environmental science, he sold his car and bought a ticket to Ecuador to look for lost cities of gold. When he didn’t find any, he began to buy local handicraft items and developed a business around selling the native wares.