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Friday, November 20, 2015

Happy Weekend! May you find a good book and a cozy spot to read.


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Artfully amusing, and easy to reinterpret into my writing work.
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Loved it! Found it synchronistic, to what was going on around me at the time... fun and weird. (good weird)
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