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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 6:10 pm |
@@@@@Michael's steeple ring two full @@@@@Michael's steeple ring two full rounds "Isn't it nice to see the streetcar with nobody on it but people dressed for a ball?" said Eleanor Butler"Did you know, Scarlett, that they always stop running the cars early on the night of the Saint Cecilia so they can scrub them out before they make the special runs to take people to the ball?" "I didn't know that, Miss EleanorHow do people get home?" "Oh, they run another special at two when the ball's over "What if somebody wants to ride who isn't going to the ball?" "They can't, of courseNobody would even think of itEverybody knows the cars don't run after nine o'clock"Mama, you sound like the duchess in Alice in Wonderland" Eleanor Butler began to laugh, too"I suppose I do," she sputtered cheerfully, then laughed even harderShe was still laughing when the carriage moved forward and stopped and the door was pulled openScarlett looked out onto a scene that made her catch her breathThis was the way a ball should oe be! Tall black iron poles held a pair of enormous lanterns brightly lit with a half dozen gas jetsThey illuminated the deep portico and towering white columns of a temple-like building set back from the street behind a tall iron fenceA gleaming white canvas walkway led from the scoured white marble carriage block to the portico's stepsOver walkway and block a white canvas awning had been erected"Just think," she said, marvelling, "you could go from your carriage to the Ball in the pouring rain and not a drop of water would touch you"That's the idea," Rhett agreed, "but it's never been testedIt never rains on the night of the Saint Cecilia "Rhett!" Eleanor Butler was genuinely shockedScarlett smiled at Rhett, pleased that he could make fun of something that he took as seriously as this ballHe'd told her all about it, how many years and years it had been going on-everything in Charleston seemed to have been around for at least a hundred years-how it was completely run by men Only men could be members of the Society"Step down, Scarlett," said Rhett, "you should feel right at home hereThis building is the Hibernian HallInside you'll see a plaque with the harp of Ireland in best gold p | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 6:55 pm |
diamond gucci,black chanel tote,quilted bag... diamond gucci,black chanel tote,quilted bag chanel,new cartier,handbag dolce gabbana@@@@@“Hold it there!” The KGB commissar instantly complied with his remote; the picture remained stationary, shaky but constant “The other one! Do you recognize him, David?” “I know him but I don’t know him,” replied Bourne in a low voice as images going back years began filling his inner screenThere were explosions, white blinding lights with blurred figures running in a jungle and then a man, an Oriental, being shot repeatedly, screaming as he was hammered into the trunk of a diamond gucci large tree by an automatic weaponThe mists of confusion swelled, dissolving into a barracks-like room with soldiers sitting behind a long table, a wooden chair on the right, a man sitting there, fidgeting, nervousAnd without warning, Jason suddenly knew that man—it was himself! A younger, much younger self, and there was another figure, in uniform, pacing like a caged ferret back and forth in front of the chair, savagely berating the man then known as Delta OneBourne gasped, his black chanel tote eyes frozen on the television screen as he realized he was staring at an older version of that angry, pacing figure in his mind’s eye“A courtroom in a base camp north of Saigon,” he whispered “It’s Ogilvie,” said Conklin, his voice distant, hollowMy God, they did link upMedusa found the Jackal!” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 371 36 “It was a trial, wasn’t it, Alex?” said Bourne, bewildered, the words floating, hesitant “Yes, it was,” agreed Conklin“But it wasn’t your quilted bag chanel trial, you weren’t the accusedYou were the one who brought charges, a rare thing for any of your group to do then, in or out of the fieldA number of the army people tried to stop you but they couldn’tWe’ll go into it later, discuss it later “I want to discuss it now,” said Jason firmly“That man is with the Jackal, right there in front of our eyesI want to know who he is and what he is and why he’s here in Moscow—with the JackalYour friend Krupkin is helping us, which means he’s new cartier helping Marie and me and I’m grateful for his helpThe colonel here is also on our side or we wouldn’t be seeing what’s on that screen at this momentI want to know what happened between that man and me, and all of Langley’s security measures can go to hellThe more I know about him—now—the better I know what to ask for, what to expect Bourne suddenly turned to the Soviets“For your information, there’s a period in my life I can’t completely remember, and that’s all you have to handbag dolce gabbana know | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 6:18 pm |
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thought - @@@@@Look what you did, you asshole, I thought - and for one terrible moment I was afraid 584 I'd said it aloud for the mike to pick up and broadcast all over the roomI was aware of how bright the spotlight was as Dario left me there on my lonely perchI was aware of the microphone on its flexible chrome rod, and thinking it looked like a cobra rising out of a snake-charmer's basketI was aware of bright points of light shining on that chrome, and on the rim of the water glass, and on the neck of the Evian bottle next to the water glassI was aware that the applause was starting to taper off; some of the people were resuming their seatsSoon an expectant silence would replace the applauseThey would wait for me to beginOnly I had nothing to sayEven my opening line had left my headThey would wait and the silence would stretch out There would be a few nervous coughs, and then the murmuring would startBecause they were assholes Just a bunch of lookie-loo assholes with rubber necksAnd if I managed anything, it would be an angry torrent of words that would sound like the outburst of a man suffering from Tourette's I'd just call for the first slideMaybe I could do that much and the pictures would carry meI'd 585 have to hope they wouldOnly when I looked at my page of notes, I saw that not only was it torn straight down the middle, my sweat had blurred the jottings so badly I could no longer make them out Either that or stress had created a short circuit between my eyes and my brainAnd what was the first slide, anyway? A mailbox painting? Sunset with Sophora? I was almost positive neither of those was right Now everyone was sittingThe applause was finishedIt was time for the American Primitive to open his mouth and ululateThree rows back, sitting on the aisle, was that nozzy birch Mary Ire, with what looked like a porthand shad open on her lapHe'd gotten me into this, but I bore him no | | Friday, December 31st, 2010 | | 6:18 pm |
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"Well, the first step is telling the @@@@@ "Well, the first step is telling the truth," said rich dad "We haven't been lying "I did not say you were lyingI said to tell the truth," rich dad came back "The truth about what?" I asked "How you're feeling," rich dad said"You don't have to say it to anyone else "You mean the people in this park, the people who work for you, MrsMartin, they don't do that?" I asked "I doubt it," said rich dad"Instead, they feel the fear of not having moneyInstead of confronting the fear, they react instead of thinkThey react emotionally instead of using their heads," rich dad said, tapping us on our heads"'Then, they get a few bucks in their hands, and again the emotion of joy and desire and greed take over, and again they react, instead of think "So their emotions do their thinking," Mike said "That's correct," said rich dad"Instead of telling the truth about how they feel, they react to their feeling, fail to thinkThey feel the fear, they go to work, hoping that money will soothe the fear, but it doesn'tThat old fear haunts them, and they go back to work, hoping again that money will calm their fears, and again it doesn'tFear has them in this trap of working, earning money, working, earning money, hoping the fear will go awayBut every day they get up, and that old fear wakes up with themFor millions of people, that old fear keeps them awake all night, causing a night of turmoil and worrySo they get up and go to work, hoping that a paycheck will kill that fear gnawing at their soulMoney is running their lives, and they refuse to tell the truth about that Money is in control of their emotions and hence their souls | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 6:10 pm |
pearl chanel,rolex watches for women,prada... pearl chanel,rolex watches for women,prada bag,louis vuitton duffle bag,rolex oyster perpetual daytona@@@@@He sighed, and shook his headThe injustice seemed remote, a little abstract Wilson yawped onto the grassThe odor was faintly unpleasant, and he drew his head away, and crawled off a few feetHis bitterness, abruptly, became acuteAh done so damn much for them men, an' they never did 'preciate itThat time Ah got the liquor for 'em, ol' Red thought Ah was cheatin' himWhat the hell kind of way was that not to pearl chanel trust a buddy? Thinkin' Ah cheated himAn' then when Ah jus' shot that little ol' bush away, an' Croft grabbed me like thatHe's jus' a itty-bitty fellow, Ah coulda broken him in half if he didn't take me by surpriseBut that was a hell of a way to act jus' 'cause Ah was pissin' around a littleHis thoughts ambled along, drawing a righteous contentment from all the times the men had misunderstood himAh give rolex watches for women Gol'stein a drink, or at least Ah wanted to but he was so damn chickenshit about it, he wouldn't even take itAnd then Gallagher callin' me a dumb cracker, and po' white trashHe didn't have to do that, Ah was damn nice to him when his wife died, but none of them 'preciate anythin', they jus' take off an' save they own ass, and to hell with anybody elseCroft didn't have to ride me since Ah got sick, Ah cain't prada bag he'p it if mah insides are shot plumb to hellHe sighed again, the grass blurring before his eyesJus' took off an' left me alone, don' give a damn what happens to meHe thought of all the distance they had covered, and wondered if he could crawl backHe dredged himself over the ground for a few feet, halting in painHis mind hovered about the realization that he was badly wounded, marooned miles and miles louis vuitton duffle bag from anywhere, alone in a barren wildernessBut he could not grasp it, sinking back again into a partial stupor from the effort it had cost him to crawlHe heard someone groan, then groan again, and realized with surprise that he was making the sounds The sun was burning on his back, laving his body with a pleasant heatSlowly he could feel himself sinking into the earth, its warmth spreading about, supporting rolex oyster perpetual daytona h | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 6:10 pm |
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There was no need to apologizeShe was @@@@@ There was no need to apologizeShe was pleased just to be there, in a warm, well-run store that was doing a good business, with a newfound cousin whose competence and skillful treatment of his customers was a delight to observeAt last there was a brief moment when the only customers were a mother and her three daughters who were looking through four boxes of laces"I'll talk like a rushing river, then, while I can," said Jamie"Uncle James will be longing to see you, Katie ScarlettHe's an old gentleman, but still active enoughHe's here every day until dinnertimeYou may not know it, but his wife died, God rest her soul, and Uncle Andrew's wife as wellIt took the heart out of Uncle Andrew, and he followed her within a monthMay they all be resting in the arms of the angelsUncle James lives in the house with me and my wife and childrenIt's not far from here Will you come to tea this afternoon and see them all? My boy Daniel will be back soon from making deliveries, and I'll walk you to the house We're celebrating my daughter Patricia's birthday todayAll the family will be there Scarlett said she'd love to go to teaThen she took off her hat and cape and walked over to the ladies at the lacesThere was more than one O 'Hara who knew how to run a store Besides, she was too excited to sit stillA birthday for her cousin's daughter! Let's see, ii she'll be my first cousin once removed Although Scarlett had grown (I up without the usual many-generation family network of the South, she was still a Southerner, and could name the exact relationship of cousins to the tenth removeShe had revelled in watching Jamie while he worked, because he was the living confirmation of everything Gerald O'Hara had told herHe had the dark curly hair and blue eyes of the O'HarasAnd the wide mouth and short nose in the round, florid faceMost of all, he was a big man, tall and broad through the chest with strong thick legs like the trunks of trees that could withstand any storm | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 6:14 pm |
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dior saddle,chloe paddington ,mens gucci... dior saddle,chloe paddington ,mens gucci watches,omega seamaster gmt,replica cartier@@@@@The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems That is why my educated dad said the Japanese valued the power of the mirror the most, for it is only when we as humans look into the mirror do we find truthAnd the main reason that most people say "Play it safe1' is out of fearThat goes for anything, be it sports, relationships, career, money It is that same fear, the dior saddle fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends "Your home is an asset "Get a bill consolidation loan and get out of debt "Someday I'll be a vice president "When ! get a raise, I'll buy us a bigger house "Mutual funds are safe "Tickle Me Elmo dolls are out of stock, but I just happen to have one in back that another customer has not come by for yet Many chloe paddington great financial problems are caused by going along with the crowd and trying to keep up with the Joneses Occasionally, we all need to look in the mirror and be true to our inner wisdom rather than our fears By the time Mike and I were 16 years old, we began to have problems in schoolWe just began to separate from the crowdWe worked for Mike's dad after school and on the weekends Mike and I often spent hours after mens gucci watches work just sitting at a table with his dad while he held meetings with his bankers, attorneys, accountants, brokers, investors, managers and employeesHere was a man who had left school at the age of 13, now directing, instructing, ordering and asking questions of educated peopleThey came at his beck and call, and cringed when he did not approve of them Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd He was a man omega seamaster gmt who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it He also hated the word "can't If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think you can do it Mike and I learned more sitting at his meetings than we did in all our years of school, college includedMike's dad was not school educated, but he was financially educated and successful as a replica cartier re | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 6:10 pm |
dior saddle,santos cartier,omega pocket... dior saddle,santos cartier,omega pocket watch,cartier pasha watch,women rolex watches@@@@@ But inevitably he climbs out of the sea, grasps in his vision the familiar bedposts, the paler rectangle of the window, smells the flat commonplace odors of his body, and the pit of anxiety and aliveness shrinks to its normal place, is almost forgottenHe begins to brood about his concerns for the coming day So Brown thought about his wife, remembered her at first with longing and a flood of long-compressed love, and saw her face over his, her breasts nuzzling richly against his neckBut the unfamiliarity, the nakedness of his feeling was leaving dior saddle himHe heard Goldstein and Ridges talking, felt the moistness of Wilson's forehead, and he was cast again into the worries and problems of the two days aheadSeeing the bedpost, his heart clamped on the memory of his wife like a dog crunching a bone, and he pushed her away, immersed again in bitternessFooling around with anything that wears pants He began to brood about the difficulties of carrying Wilson backThere was a strong residual fatigue in his body from the first two days of the patrol, and the hills ahead would be demanding, exhausting, santos cartier now that their relief had returned to the platoonHe had a sharp preview of the next day's marchWith only four of them to bear the litter, they would be working all the time without relief, and after fifteen minutes in the morning they would be cruelly tired, dragging on painfully, having to halt for rest every few minutesWilson weighed two hundred pounds, and when their packs were lashed to the stretcher, it would be easily three hundred poundsSeventy-five pounds to a manThrough experience he knew how exhaustion broke him down, dissolved his will, omega pocket watch and muddied his mindHe was the leader of this detail, and it was his duty to get them through, but he felt unsure of himself The aftermath of all this -- his sympathy for Wilson, the purge he had felt, and then the return of his bitterness -- left him very honest with himself for a few minutesHe knew that he had wanted this detail because he was afraid of going on with the platoon, and he had to succeed hereA noncom ain't worth a goddam when he loses his nerve if he lets himself show it, Brown told himselfBut it was more than thatSomehow he could cartier pasha watch slide through the months, perhaps the years aheadThey were in combat only a small part of the time really, and even then nothing might happen; his fear might not be noticed, nobody might be hurt because of itIf he did the rest of his work well enough it would be all rightAfter the Motome campaign was over, I was a hell of a lot better than Martinez for drilling and training, he thought What he realized partially was that he was afraid of breaking up completely, of being inefficient even in garrisonI gotta get ahold of myself or I'll be losing my women rolex watches stri | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 6:10 pm |
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not small shall all @@@@@My influence, which is not small shall all go that way; and when once married, and prop400 Mansfield Park erly supported by her own family, people of respectability as they are, she may recover her footing in society to a certain degreeIn some circles, we know, she would never be admitted, but with good dinners, and large parties, there will always be those who will be glad of her acquaintance; and there is, undoubtedly, more liberality and candour on those points than formerlyWhat I advise is, that your father be quietDo not let him injure his own cause by interference Persuade him to let things take their courseIf by any officious exertions of his, she is induced to leave Henry’s protection, there will be much less chance of his marrying her than if she remain with himI know how he is likely to be influencedLet Sir Thomas trust to his honour and compassion, and it may all end well; but if he get his daughter away, it will be destroying the chief hold” After repeating this, Edmund was so much affected that Fanny, watching him with silent, but most tender concern, was almost sorry that the subject had been entered on at allIt was long before he could speak againAt last, “Now, Fanny,” said he, “I shall soon have doneI have told you the substance of all that she saidAs soon as I could speak, I replied that I had not supposed it possible, coming in such a state of mind into that house as I had done, that anything could occur to make me suffer more, but that she had been inflicting deeper wounds in almost every sentenceThat though I had, in the course of our acquaintance, been often sensible of some difference in our opinions, on points, too, of some moment, it had not entered my imagination to conceive the difference could be such as she had now proved itThat the manner in which she treated the dreadful crime committed by her brother and my sister (with whom lay the greater seduction I pretended not to say), but the manner in which she spoke of the crime itself, giving it every reproach but the right; considering its ill consequences only as they were to be braved or overborne by a defiance of decency and impudence in wrong; and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and 401 Jane Austen that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own imagination, not Miss Crawford, that I had been too apt to dwell on for many months pastThat, perhaps, it was best for me; I had less to regret in sacrificing a friendship, feelings, hopes which must, at any rate, have been torn from me nowAnd yet, that I must and would confess that, could I have restored her to what she had appeared to me before, I would infinitely prefer any increase of the pain of parting, for the sake of carrying with me the right of tenderness and esteemThis is what I said, the purport of it; but, as you may imagine, not spoken so collectedly or methodically as I have repeated it to youShe was astonished, exceedingly astonished— more than astonishedI saw her change countenanceShe turned extremely redI imagined I saw a mixture of many feelings: a great, though short struggle; half a wish of yielding to truths, half a sense of shame, but habit, habit carried itShe would have laughed if she couldIt was a sort of laugh, as she answered, ‘A pretty good lecture, upon my wordWas it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign part | | Friday, December 17th, 2010 | | 6:15 pm |
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@@@@@She still had three months to herself! No @@@@@She still had three months to herself! No one would press her with questions or invitations until the news of the engagement was releasedInside the package she found a square shallow box of oxblood leather, finely tooled in goldThe hinged top lifted and Scarlett gaspedThe case was lined in padded gray velvet, shaped and compartmented to display a necklace, two bracelets, and a pair of earringsThe settings were fashioned of heavy old gold with a dull, almost bronze finishThe jewels were pigeon's blood rubies, matched stones, each as large as her thumb nailThe earrings were single oval ruby drops from an intricately shaped bossBracelets held a dozen stones each, and the necklace was made up of two rows of stones linked by swagged thick chainsFor the first time Scarlett understood the difference between jewelry and jewelsNo one would ever refer to these rubies as jewelryThey were too exceptional and too valuable They were, without doubt, jewelsHer fingers were trembling when she clasped the bracelets on her wristsShe couldn't do the necklace by herself, she had to ring for Peggy QuinnWhen she saw herself in the looking glass, Scarlett drew in a long breathHer skin looked like alabaster with the dark richness of the rubies against itHer hair was in some way darker and more lustrousShe tried to remember what the tiara looked likeIt, too, was set with rubiesShe would look like a queen when she was presented to the I QueenHer green eyes narrowed slightlyLondon was going to a much more challenging game than DublinShe might even to like London very muchPeggy Quinn lost no time telling the news to the other and her family in Ballyhara townThe magnificent parure plus ermine-trimmed robe plus the weeks of morning coffee could mean one t | | Friday, December 10th, 2010 | | 6:22 pm |
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There'd be no vigilante justice or random @@@@@ There'd be no vigilante justice or random attacks on Northern troops under the guise of protecting Charleston's women Scarlett's fears-long years of them-crashed on her like a tidal wave She had grown contemptuous of the occupation troops; like everyone else in Charleston she ignored them, acted as if they were not there, and they got out of her way as she walked briskly down the sidewalk on her way to pay a call or go shoppingNow she was afraid of every blue uniform she sawAny one of them might be the midnight intruder She could imagine him all too well, a figure springing out from the dark Her sleep was broken by hideous dreams-memories, reallyAgain and again she saw the Yankee straggler who'd come to Tara, smelled the rank smell of him, saw hisfilthy, hairy hands pawing through the trinkets in her mother's work box, his red-rimmed eyes hot with violent lust staring at her and his broken-toothed mouth wet and twisted in an anticipatory leerObliterated the mouth and the eyes in an explosion of blood and bits of bone and viscous red-streaked gobbets of hisbrainsShe'd never been able to forget the echoing boom of the shot and the ghastly red spatterings and her fierce, rending triumph Oh, if only she had a pistol to protect herself and Miss Eleanor from the Yankee! But there was no weapon in the houseShe ransacked cupboards and trunks, wardrobes and dresser drawers, even the shelves behind the books in the libraryShe was defenseless, helplessFor the first time in her life she felt weak, unable to face and overcome any obstacle in her wayIt all but crippled herShe begged Eleanor Butler to send a message to RhettYes, yes, she'd send wordYes, she'd tell him what Alicia had said about the hulking size of the man and the unearthly glint of moonlight in his inhumanly black eyesYes, she'd remind him that she and Scarlett were two women alone in the big house at night, that the servants all went to their own homes after supper except for Manigo, an old man, and Pansy, a small, weak girlYes, she'd make the note urgent, and she'd dispatch it right away-on the very next trip of the boat that brought game from the plantation"But when will that be, Miss Eleanor? Rhett has to come now! That magnolia tree is practically a ladder from the ground to the piazza outside our rooms!" Scarlett clutched MrsButler's arm, shook it for emphasis Eleanor patted her hand"Soon, dear, it's bound to be soonWe haven't had any duck for a month, and roast duck is a particular favorite of | | Saturday, December 4th, 2010 | | 6:12 pm |
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The whole e-mail @@@@@That asscancer's a bitch The whole e-mail was a symphony of irritation, from the mention of the Mustang that I'd never had time to finish to her concerns about my mistaken word-choicesSaid concerns delivered by a woman who thought Xander came with a Z And with that petty spleen out of my system (spoken to the empty house, and in loud tones, if you must know), I did review the e-mail I'd sent her, and yes, I was worried On the other hand, maybe it was just the wind 196 v The second striped beach chair had become a fixture at the heavyset guy's table, and as I drew closer to it, we sometimes shouted a little conversation back and forthIt was a strange way to strike up an acquaintance, but pleasantThe day after Pam's e-mail, with its surface concerns and buried subtext (You could be as sick as my father, Eddie, maybe even sicker), the fellow down the beach yelled: "How long before you get here, do you think?" "Four days!" I yelled back"Maybe three!" "You that set on making a round trip?" "I am!" I said"What's your name?" His deeply tanned face, although growing fleshy, was still handsomeNow white teeth flashed there, and his incipient jowls disappeared when he grinned"Tell you when you get here! What's yours?" "It's on the mailbox!" I called "The day I stoop to reading mailboxes is the day I start getting my news from talk radio!" 197 I gave him a wave, he gave me one in turn, called "Hasta manana!" and turned to look at the water and the cruising birds once more When I got back to Big Pink, the flag of my computer mailbox was sticking up, and I found this: KamenDoc to EFree19 2:49 PM January 25 Edgar: Pam sent me copies of your latest e-mail and your picturesLet me say first and foremost that I am STUNNED by the rapidity of your growth as an artistI can see you shying away from the word with that patented sidelong frown of yours, but there is no other word Concerning her worries: there's probably nothing to themStill, an MRI would be a good ideaDo you have a doctor down there? You're due for a physical - soup to nuts, my friend Kamen EFree19 to KamenDoc 198 3:58 PM January 25 Kamen: Good to hear from youIf you want to call me an artist (or even an "artiste"), who am I to argue? I currently have no Florida sawbonesCan you refer me to one or would you rather I went through Todd Jamieson, the doc with his fingers most recently in my brain? Edgar I thought he'd refer, and I might even keep the appointment, but right then a few dropped words and linguistic oddities weren't a priority Walking was a priority, and reaching the striped beach chair that had been set out for me was also sort of a priority, but my main ones as January waned were Internet searches and painting pictures I had reached Sunset with Shell No16 only the night befo |
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