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I like anything with cheese. A nice fondue, melted brie, that Frito Lay Cheese stuff mixed with salsa or some good old hot Cheez Whiz. Spinach and cheese or avocado and cheese with bread, but they always give me salty chips. Oh well.

I also like that chick pea/garlic/oil stuff they give you for bread at restaurants. And one of my favorites gives chicken liver pate - but that doesn't really count as a dip. Or any nicely flavored olive oil......mmmm......

OK, so anything with a heavy fat content is just fine with me.

Those apples dipped in warm peanut butter sounds good.

When I was little my cousins used to babysit me and we'd have lemons dipped in sugar. I don't know that I'd eat them by the dozens like I did then, but they were so good.

My first snow came when I was a child in Tucson, AZ. I think the thing I first noticed, even before I knew it had snowed, was the silence. Snow really is a blanket, absorbing all the usual noises we take for granted.

I remember waking and wondering at the quiet, then looking out the window in wonder. It was the first time it had snowed in Tucson for several years and I was in junior high school.

I raced outside and made a snowman, using almost all the snow on the lawn. I didn't own any warm caps so I put a sun hat on his head. He looked pretty ridiculous, but he was wonderful--my first snow and my first snowman.

The first snow of the season remains magical for me, even in Connecticut. The world changes and watching the beauty of it is as mesmerizing as watching a fire or the ocean's waves breaking on shore.

I wasn't aware of this situation until I moved here. It's a source of frustration for the Chamorro people, especially the elderly. It's interesting though, that a majority of the older people who speak on this subject don't really care about any monetary compensation. What they really want is recognition from the U.S. government