My Grandmother remembers when she was a very small child her family had an icebox; their family was among the last people in the neighborhood to have one. An iceman comes every few days and he placed a large block of ice in one of the compartments and this is how food stayed cold and hopefully fresh. Now I am on the way to the kitchen and to our very large, tall, almond colored, two-door refrigerator.

This refrigerator does not need ice, it makes ice, and behind that freezer door I can find ice cream. Some days it's vanilla or strawberry and on other days its chocolate. There are shelves inside the door and one large shelf with a big bin that pulls out from under the shelf. Today there is nothing in the freezer but bread, too bad, no ice cream. I close the freezer door, which

I pulled out the right middle shelf and found hot dogs, margarine, my mother's slim fast, and some interesting left-overs. Then there is the bottom self where the tall bottles fit. We have milk and kefir, which is a kind of yogurt, and on the left side of course, is more cheese. I don't know why there is so much cheese; I don't even really like cheese.

Here, also, are a lot of shelves inside the door, some with special compartments for cheese and eggs and places for small items that might otherwise be lost in the main part of this almond colored electrical "ice box." There is nothing I want to eat on these shelves so I am going to go to the main part of the refrigerator.

First, I go to the two big drawers on the bottom of the fridge. They are clear; the one on the left holds vegetables and the one on the right holds fruits. In the one on the right are big purple grapes and three apples. The left one has some green peppers, broccoli and two bags of mixed veggies. The broccoli is starting to smell strong and needs to be cooked in a

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