never heard of Sally Ann either.  Is Value Village sort of like
Building 19 that I referred to previously?

--- In [email protected], "Gina Ellis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> From an obituary for writer Madeleine L'Engle -
> 
> "The novel weaved together aspects of theology and quantum physics..."
> 
> No, it's not the theology or quantum physics I'm objecting to, but the 
> "weaved".  It's supposed to be WOVE.  I like the internal tense
changes, 
> dammit.  And they are disappearing...
> 
> P.S. to Ellen.  Been busy for a while, so didn't get back to you
about Value 
> Village.  They are in existence on the west coast, anyway, so not just 
> Canadian (but are right across Canada).  They are the Walmart, or
Target, of 
> second-hand stores - a slick chain.  They put some of our grungy thrift 
> shops out of business and got the others to spiff up (Sally Ann
still seems 
> to be doing well).  It's chain-store, mass-production (or induction)
of 2nd 
> hand goods, in big bright department stores.  I suspect very little
goes to 
> the deserving, but they are irresistable...  (I love going into a
place and 
> saying to myself, I can buy anything in the joint.  Not many stores
I feel 
> like that.  Being an inveterate 2nd-hand person, regular retail
prices make 
> me swoon.)
> 
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