A Narrative Alphametic

James Mayfield gives this clever expression in the August 2006 issue of Word Ways:

BEAR + RARE + ERE = RHYME

It’s an alphametic: If each letter is taken to represent a different digit, it encodes a valid equation. What’s the equation?

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If A=5, B=7, E=9, H=0, M=8, R=1, and Y=3, then: 7951 1519 + 919 ----- 10389 Mayfield gives 94 additional narrative alphametics, including the remarkable BRUTUS + STABS = CAESAR, in the article. He provides no answers, but if you get stuck you can derive them using this nifty calculator. (James Mayfield, “Some Narrative Alphametics,” Word Ways 39:3 [August 2006], 179-181.)