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My favorite souvenir from Greece

My favorite souvenir from Greece was also the cheapest: the gold-tone laurel wreath pictured above. They sell these at every cheesy tourist souvenir shop in Greece for a handful of Euro, but I’m going to get dozens of evenings of fun out of it.

Case in point: I wore it to the recent Vinos de Dali party at the Salvador Dali Museum a couple of weeks back, got lots of compliments and started more than a handful of conversations:

I think that Apollo, patron god of musical performance, would have approved.

Joey deVilla

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