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Tips from the one and only Grossy Pelosi

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Jo Piazza
Sep 03, 2025
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I’ve starting saying something new when I run into people at drop off for the first time in awhile. I ask them, “what’s the best thing that you ate all summer?” instead of asking “how are you doing?” How are you doing is so fraught right now and no one really knows how to answer it well. But everyone wants to talk about food.

For me, as a Sicilian-Ameri…

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