<-----a running blueberry 
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"I am ''berry, berry happy'' that berry season has arrived: they have to be the original finger food. All berries contain ellagic acid, a compound that helps fight cancer on many levels. Blackberries, raspberries and strawberries contain the most ellagic acid. As an antioxidant, this compound helps prevent carcinogen damage to DNA-carrying cells.
Berries are also high in vitamin C, one of the strongest antioxidants that helps reduce the risk of cancer, infections and heart disease.
There are so many different varieties of berries, and most are regionally known. For example, here in the East, the blueberry, blackberry and strawberry are probably the best-known of many species. In the West, buffalo berries or bull berries, chokecherries, currants and elderberries prevail.
Growing up, blueberry pickin' was a social event I enjoyed with my mom and her friends. I remember lining our baskets with grape or maple leaves so we wouldn't stain our baskets or lose any berries through the weaves.
When we moved into the home we are in now, there was a very large berry patch: about 20 or more feet square. To get to the middle, we had to drop in a long, wide plank to walk on.
One time my mom, then in her 70s, lost her balance on the plank and fell backwards into the sticking brambles of the raspberry patch. Poor dear; after pulling out an awful lot of thorns in her back, we missed a few. Now and then they would bother her and we would have to find and remove the culprit. "
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