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I virtuously was buying carrots and milk at the supermarket one day last week when I was startled to see the headlines on Star magazine.

"Inside Suri's strange world ..." screamed the headline in large bold print. Listed as evidence of strangeness for Tom Cruise's little daughter Suri:

* No Happy Meals!

* No television!

* No medicine, only herbs!

* Play dates with other children of Scientologists

I wonder if anyone has called protective services about the little girl who is missing out on the grease in a Happy Meal, television time before she can even read and herbs that have been healing people for thousands of years.

Must have been a really slow news day at Star magazine.

A million for your pretzel?

The editors must not have known about a much bigger story last week -- the million-dollar pretzel. Michael Fleming only has been offered $10,950 on eBay for his pretzel that resembles the Virgin Mary.

But last week, he did receive a $1 million dollar bid that apparently was phony. One report was that there is a replica of the pretzel available for only $5,000.

He must really be jealous of Diana Duyser and her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich with a bite out of it that sold for $28,000 on eBay. That's a steal when you consider that Diana believes the bread carries the image of the Virgin Mary on it.

When she first noticed the image on the sandwich 10 years ago, she did what anyone would do. She neatly packed it up in a clear plastic box with cotton balls and put it on her night stand.

From that place, it proceeded to bring her luck -- such as winning $70,000 at a casino near her Florida home. She also said that in all those years, it never molded or deteriorated.

So, of course, when she decided to sell the sandwich on eBay, people were very interested. The high bidder was an online casino, GoldenPalace.com. Officials claimed that they would have paid not only the $28,000, but "whatever it took" to own the grilled cheese sandwich.

That brings the sandwich's total earnings for Diana Duyser to $98,000. I have to say that from its picture, I think the image looks more like Rita Hayworth starring as a wayward woman in "Gilda," but it's clearly been lucky for Diana.

That's no Easter bunny

Of all the Mary sightings, the chocolate Virgin Mary discovered in Fountain Valley, Calif., is my favorite. For one thing, the people at Bodega Chocolates aren't trying to sell the two-inch tall column of chocolate drippings found under a vat one morning.

They said that usually there are just slivers are small mounds under the vat. So this column that looks kind of like a chocolate Mary Easter bunny startled the employee who saw it first.

Now it's residing at the chocolate factory surrounded by rose petals and candles. Sounds pretty romantic -- chocolate, candles, roses.

I'm guessing that a divine female spirit would choose this appearance over a grilled cheese sandwich or a pretzel any day.

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