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  • For dessert there was usually a gluckschmerz pie, with the fluffy look and heft of a small snowbank.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • For dessert there was usually a gluckschmerz pie, with the fluffy look and heft of a small snowbank.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

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  • '“It’s not an actual word in the German language,” says University of Kentucky psychologist Richard Smith. “You won’t find it in any German dictionary.”' - spotted on languagehat

    March 12, 2017