As you contemplate not eating any bread for a week, we contemplate the 10 Plagues — those most metal of punishments ... frogs that came up out of the Nile river and covered the land of Egypt, ...

“There are plagues ... Or, ten to be more precise. And perhaps most startling and conveniently for this writer, they directly mirror those to have befallen Egypt in Biblical times.

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