A HARTE APPETITE: FRUIT FOOLS ARE TASTY ON APRIL 1

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Wednesday, April 1, 1998

Ambrose Bierce has defined an April fool as "the March fool with another month added to his folly." Mark Twain went even further when he declared, "The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."

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