When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it …

William Faulkner
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When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells. ✨ William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
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When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells. ✨ William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

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