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MILL CREEK STORIES
Confession
What would the grandmas say? And do?
By MOLLY DUGGER BRENNAN | Illustration by JOSEPH MACKERETH
'all, I have an embarrassing confession to
make. I have a problem and I need help. I am
addicted. Hello, my name is Molly and I am an
Amazonaholic. The first step towards healing
is recognizing that you have a problem, right?
Well, I am up to my eyeballs in problems here.
It started out simple enough. I live way out
in the country in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and the
local grocery store doesn't carry my favorite products. In
fact, when my little grocery starts carrying a great product,
they carry it for three months-the minimum time
to make me love and even crave an item-and then they
discontinue it. It's like they're watching my loyalty account
and as soon as I buy something regularly, BAM,
discontinued.
Y
That's okay because I can just order it off of Amazon
and it's here in a couple of days. So that seedless black
raspberry jam that I adore and can never find can magically
be in my pantry in just two days. Boom! It's a brave
new world. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, that
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I can not possess now because it's all available to order,
with free shipping, from the ballooning behemoth
known as Amazon.
That's how it started. Innocently enough, ordering my
favorite jam. If only that's where it had ended. Oh no.
I started to browse. When browsing, you find the most
interesting things. Useful things. Taking you down the
rabbit-hole-of-spending things. I ordered cases of my favorite
green chili stew from New Mexico. I ordered special
shoes for work that help with heel pain. I ordered everything
I could find related to Harry Potter because I am a
huge fan. I ordered a Japanese pruning saw because my
Wedgewood lilac bush needs to be cut back. This is fun.
I am finding wonderful things from the comfort of my
sofa and unwrapping boxes of goodies two days later. It's
Christmas every day.
The problem with Christmas every day is that it's not
Santa's credit card that's popping for the prezzies. It's
mine. And my credit card is wheezing from overuse. Then
the pandemic happened and I was at home, me and my
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