Oy these are sooooo baaaad...
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On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
...BOOOOO!!!
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From: Robert
Date: 10/31/2009 10:06:12 AM
To: Friends & Family
Subject: THESE ARE FRIGHTFULLY BAD!
What do you get when you cross a ghost with Bambi?
Bamboo
Why don't witches ride their brooms when they're angry?
They don't want to fly off the handle
What do you get if you drop a pumpkin?
Squash
Why don't skeletons cross the road?
They don't have the guts
What happened to the guy who couldn't pay his exorcist?
He was repossessed
Who won the skeleton beauty contest?
No body
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Still True - Eric Hoffer
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Thu, Oct 29, 2009
6:16 PM,
Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
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From: PEARLIE
Date: 10/29/2009 5:35:56 PM
Subject: Fw: Still true
Sent: 10/28/2009 11:17:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight TimeSubj: Still true
THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 1968 41 years ago - Astonishing!
You probably don't remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic.
Eric Hoffer was one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20th Century. His books are still widely read and quoted today. Acclaimed for his thoughts on mass movements and fanaticism, Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. Hopewell Publications awards the best in independent publishing across a wide range of categories, singling out the most thought provoking titles in books and short prose, on a yearly basis in honor of Eric Hoffer.
Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 41 years ago! Some things never change.
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ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer - LA Times 5/26/68
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him. The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did inVietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway. The Jews are alone in the world.
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. and Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general. I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.
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Thu, Oct 29, 2009
6:16 PM,
Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
-------Original Message-------
From: PEARLIE
Date: 10/29/2009 5:35:56 PM
Subject: Fw: Still true
Sent: 10/28/2009 11:17:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight TimeSubj: Still true
THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 1968 41 years ago - Astonishing!
You probably don't remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic.
Eric Hoffer was one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20th Century. His books are still widely read and quoted today. Acclaimed for his thoughts on mass movements and fanaticism, Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. Hopewell Publications awards the best in independent publishing across a wide range of categories, singling out the most thought provoking titles in books and short prose, on a yearly basis in honor of Eric Hoffer.
Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 41 years ago! Some things never change.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer - LA Times 5/26/68
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him. The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did inVietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway. The Jews are alone in the world.
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. and Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general. I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
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From:
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:36 AM
Subject: Perceptions of the Jews by well known-gentiles
Perceptions of the Jews by well known-gentiles!!!
Zamsky Dan
"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid."
"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews."
"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all."
"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me.."
"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."
>"The study of history of Europe during the past centuries
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From:
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:36 AM
Subject: Perceptions of the Jews by well known-gentiles
Perceptions of the Jews by well known-gentiles!!!
Zamsky Dan
"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
-- Winston Churchill
"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
--Leo Tolstoy
"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid."
--A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842
"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews."
--Thomas Cahill, Irish Author
"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all."
--William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords
"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me.."
--Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."
--Paul Johnson, American Historian
"As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest."
--Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.
"They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve ones fellow men.
"They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers They gave the world the Bible and even their "savior." "Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews. And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it.
"They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by."So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are"All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.
"Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the Jews This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance."Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues. When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the worldparadoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.
"The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse."
--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
"If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen"
--A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Dave Ruden wrote:
>"The study of history of Europe during the past centuries
>teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received
>and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have
>prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed
>them have written out their own curse."
>--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
>--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
Interesting point. Curiously, on thinking about it, I find this also in my readings of history. Although it has never been an explicitly drawn conclusion or theme in my readings, it has been remarkably consistent in its truth.(although I have yet to really get into Greek history :).
---Dave.
---Dave.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
08/18/2009
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
Dear Sharon and Reidar-
It was so great to have you visit us -you are a GREAT couple, so good looking and charming, do come again...And (if I make it :) you MUST come to my 90th B'day gathering in March...
Sending you a delightful little program I just received from ISrael (Ilana belongs also to the Popkin family, actually...a cousin of your father) . This slide show reminds me of the lovely flowers you brought me...thanks again!
Love, Aunt Lisl
Dear Sharon and Reidar-
It was so great to have you visit us -you are a GREAT couple, so good looking and charming, do come again...And (if I make it :) you MUST come to my 90th B'day gathering in March...
Sending you a delightful little program I just received from ISrael (Ilana belongs also to the Popkin family, actually...a cousin of your father) . This slide show reminds me of the lovely flowers you brought me...thanks again!
Love, Aunt Lisl
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
July 27, 2009
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
Hi!
We had the Rabbi and her husband for Lunch (Julie made Brisket etc. ) then they went to Torah study - Julie is so completely involved now with the Temple, (too much,if you ask me :( but I felt uncommonly tired and stayed home , watched the Fla Beauty pageant, gorgeous girls - didn't pick the winner, but it was an esthetic adventure - so much beauty...
My appetite is so lousy and when I finally feel like eating, its the wrong stuff and my Edema on my right leg swells up -too much salt, probably, in short I am a mess...The good Docs give us Oldtimers more quantity of life and take away the quality ( sorry, bitching, bitching -forgive me...)
Glad, you have fun things planned and are meeting interesting people - keep it up ...Did Pam go for her final checkup last Thursday? All O.K.?
My Love to both of you! Have Fun and take care of yourselves - Life is too short not to...
MOM
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From: Dave Ruden
Date: 7/25/2009 5:22:04 PM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: !!!
Hi Mom,
Doing good so far. Went out to dinner with some new friends of Pam's. Pam met her at the breast cancer support group she's been going to, and we've hit it off with them so far. Did some much needed yard work around the house this morning, and then a little shopping. Gong to Durham this evening for a Durham Bulls baseball game. The USNA Alumni Association is having their annual picnic there today. Tomorrow is mostly hanging around home, cleaning up inside - which is also much needed :).
How are you feeling?
---D.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
VERY WELL SAID, DAVID!
HOW IS YOUR WEEKEND SHAPING UP?
HAVE A GOOD ONE...
LOVE, mom
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From: Dave Ruden
Date: 7/24/2009 5:56:45 PM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: !!!
I've heard this statement from him before. Interesting. I wonder, however, about the first part of that. I.e. I don't think I agree that science needs religion. Maybe it needs ethics, but not religion. Perhaps, however, it depends on the definition/scope of the concept of "religion". Einstein was very much into the 'mystery' behind the universe. As such, there was an awe and reverence of that mystery which can be attributed to an appreciation of God.
::)
---D.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
Lisa.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
Hi!
We had the Rabbi and her husband for Lunch (Julie made Brisket etc. ) then they went to Torah study - Julie is so completely involved now with the Temple, (too much,if you ask me :( but I felt uncommonly tired and stayed home , watched the Fla Beauty pageant, gorgeous girls - didn't pick the winner, but it was an esthetic adventure - so much beauty...
My appetite is so lousy and when I finally feel like eating, its the wrong stuff and my Edema on my right leg swells up -too much salt, probably, in short I am a mess...The good Docs give us Oldtimers more quantity of life and take away the quality ( sorry, bitching, bitching -forgive me...)
Glad, you have fun things planned and are meeting interesting people - keep it up ...Did Pam go for her final checkup last Thursday? All O.K.?
My Love to both of you! Have Fun and take care of yourselves - Life is too short not to...
MOM
-------Original Message-------
From: Dave Ruden
Date: 7/25/2009 5:22:04 PM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: !!!
Hi Mom,
Doing good so far. Went out to dinner with some new friends of Pam's. Pam met her at the breast cancer support group she's been going to, and we've hit it off with them so far. Did some much needed yard work around the house this morning, and then a little shopping. Gong to Durham this evening for a Durham Bulls baseball game. The USNA Alumni Association is having their annual picnic there today. Tomorrow is mostly hanging around home, cleaning up inside - which is also much needed :).
How are you feeling?
---D.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
VERY WELL SAID, DAVID!
HOW IS YOUR WEEKEND SHAPING UP?
HAVE A GOOD ONE...
LOVE, mom
-------Original Message-------
From: Dave Ruden
Date: 7/24/2009 5:56:45 PM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: !!!
I've heard this statement from him before. Interesting. I wonder, however, about the first part of that. I.e. I don't think I agree that science needs religion. Maybe it needs ethics, but not religion. Perhaps, however, it depends on the definition/scope of the concept of "religion". Einstein was very much into the 'mystery' behind the universe. As such, there was an awe and reverence of that mystery which can be attributed to an appreciation of God.
::)
---D.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
Lisa.
Friday, July 24, 2009
July 24, 2009 - Pineapples
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Dr. Lisa Earlewrote:
...harvesting Pineapples...must share...
Have a great day! Love,
Mom
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Dr. Lisa Earle
...harvesting Pineapples...must share...
Have a great day! Love,
Mom
Saturday, July 18, 2009
July 17, 2009
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Dr. Lisa Earle wrote:
Read your blog -I hate to disagree with Pam, but again, I think,your features are too "clean cut" to look like raggedy Andy :((( Do get that haircut and send me a picture...
Have fun at the concerts - so glad that Pam has so many great, social contacts - makes life so much more fun. Funny, I just ordered "Milk" through Netflix, I remember the real story and it sounds interesting. If you see it on Sunday, tell me how you liked it!
So you enjoy the weekend, you two!
Love you, MOM
BTW, Julie is such an optimist and positive thinker in her messages, but today I feel exceptionally tired and draggy - kinda quetching and aching - oye veh...Old age is truly not for Sissies...so, call me Sissy...
Enjoy your youth while you can, DAvid! Make each day count and take care of yourself!
Love, M.
Read your blog -I hate to disagree with Pam, but again, I think,your features are too "clean cut" to look like raggedy Andy :((( Do get that haircut and send me a picture...
Have fun at the concerts - so glad that Pam has so many great, social contacts - makes life so much more fun. Funny, I just ordered "Milk" through Netflix, I remember the real story and it sounds interesting. If you see it on Sunday, tell me how you liked it!
So you enjoy the weekend, you two!
Love you, MOM
BTW, Julie is such an optimist and positive thinker in her messages, but today I feel exceptionally tired and draggy - kinda quetching and aching - oye veh...Old age is truly not for Sissies...so, call me Sissy...
Enjoy your youth while you can, DAvid! Make each day count and take care of yourself!
Love, M.
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