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FAVORITES

And The Nostalgia Factor

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
Apr 09, 2022
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We all have our favorites. Favorite foods, favorite outfits, favorite children. Not really . . . we love all our children equally, right?

Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart built multinational companies around their favorites. So, here is the thing about favorites—sometimes they don’t make sense.

Pizza from scratch. My husband announces that he will be maki…

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