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Good morning. For a change of pace, I’d recommend this delightful Letter of Recommendation. “It was one of those miserable experiences so unpleasant that they wrap all the way back around to pleasure,” Sam Anderson writes about, of course, a colonoscopy. He compares the procedure to both a religious pilgrimage and a chef deveining a shrimp.