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I have five brackets this year...yes, five.  And they all took a beating over the weekend.  Some might say I'm a little obsessed with March Madness, but I don't know why I keep doing this to myself.  In an effort to protect some of my pride, I'm only showing the two brackets that have a fighting chance in my pools.  Yes, I'm aware that I made some mistakes, but haven't we all?  Clearly my instincts were off this year.      How are your brackets doing?  Is your Final Four still intact?
I recently found myself in natural beauty product heaven, and I feel the need to share this with you.  Located on Lee Highway in Gainesville, Eden's Natural Marketplace sells all kinds of natural products, including food and cleaning supplies.  I was only concerned with the beauty products, though.  I started shifting from mainstream products to natural (aka clean) products last summer after reading No More Dirty Looks by journalists Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt.  I was living in Brooklyn at the time, and I was fortunate enough to have Perelandra just a few blocks away.  Eden's doesn'…

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