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Married to Stanley, a man of carnal appetites and vulgar manners, Stella has embraced the crude pleasures of realism, while her freeloading sister still clings to tattered aristocratic illusions.

If you are one of many who have a torn and tattered, sauce-splattered copy of the iconic "Joy of Cooking" cookbook, then do we have good news for you.

During the pandemic, there was an explosion of people living in tattered recreational vehicles parked in neighborhoods and industrial stretches.

His house had been foreclosed on, and he was himself, as the New York Times described him, a “white-haired, tattered public charge.”

For years they had kept their tattered big blue Trump flags flying even long after the elections but this year they seem to be few and far between.