A Word A Day Keeps the Dr. Away: dulcify

10/2/10

dulcify

dulcify: to make agreeable or gentle; mollify, to sweeten.


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My week certainly was dulcified this fine Saturday morning. My friend Jen and I ate breakfast at the Waffle Window in SW Portland. It's a window...where they sell nothing but WAFFLES! savory and sweet waffles!! Really, I was elated by my Blueberry-Cheesecake-waffle selection. Rich and creamy, and mountains of whipped cream! Jen's company cheered me up almost as much as the waffle did. It's amazing, I'm so busy and reluctantly self-interested these days that sometimes I forget I have friends. I need to work on remembering that.

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