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arrested

They probably should've been, but it no longer matters: Complete first draft and sidebars ACHIEVED. I'm gonna celebrate by turning off the computer and going out to water roses.

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (a re-read), and various historical research articles.

Ah, the sacred Ritual of Scrabble. Clears the mind and bolsters the will. Very good progress made on first draft, so I am allowed to make short visits here before editing.

After many delays and false starts, I tripled the word count on an article I'm writing for one of my dream publications. (Cure Doors: Break on through to the other side...)

Teenage Ninja Turtles

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We drove on those roads constantly. Some of them went right through the centers of towns. Very confusing.

How about that musical keyboard called the pienna?

Look up Washington sometime. It's the most common town name in the country, and never mind the state and counties.

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The Scottish Highlands had nearly incomprehensible unwritten rules about which car gets off when two cars meet on one lane roads. I had them down after the first day, bug darn if I can recall them now. Here, whoever gets to a wide spot in the road first pulls over. Not in the Highlands.

The right hand drive was fairly intuitive, but standard transmission on a right hand drive was too much to contemplate, let alone attempt. We paid extra for an automatic. Fifty years ago, a boyfriend used to buy older Peugeots in central California, spruce them up a bit, drive them to southern...

Green

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