Hmmmm, if only there were a destination that met both of your needs and also had a world-famous zoo and wild animal park... Shame that I can't think of one.

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Oh, billy, I am so very happy for you! She sounds awesome (I just read that phone conversation in Bitches, because you directed me there, and how could I resist?). You deserve all the good things in the world, and it seems like she's definitely one of them. Like, worthy of you. Which means a lot.

Yeah, I can't get over how right it feels. (Plus, she thinks the world of me, not sure why, but I'm not about to rock the boat.)

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I need this recipe. Email, please?

I'll see what I can do on the morrow.

The chai buttercream is basically the vanilla buttercream from the cupcake issue plus ground chai spices and instant tea to taste.

So yummy.

Cass, the ganache recipe I saw looked great. It involved gently warming the tea with a few bags of Earl Grey it, then the usual ganache steps.

ita, my Aunt Bett used to drink stout nightly in an effort to put on weight.

Sadly, it took it about 30 years for it to actually work.

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Hmmmm, if only there were a destination that met both of your needs and also had a world-famous zoo and wild animal park... Shame that I can't think of one.

Hee. Yeah, it's a puzzler. Unfortunately, I think that 'In Australia' is a criterion we can both agree upon.

But the overseas holiday under discussion may well include San Diego and its world-famous animal repositories. No promises.

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See, she doesn't like cold weather, but I don't like hot, humid weather.

Jerusalem! It even has a biblical zoo!

she thinks the world of me, not sure why

Hey, well, *I* think the world of you (and from across quite a lot of ocean, so the word "world" there means something), so I pretty much knows why.

I always find it almost miraculous that if person A thinks the world of person B, person B may happen to feel similarly back towards person A. It's like, if I think this person is the most wonderful I've ever met, why on earth would he think anything even close to that on silly little me? And yet, it works every time (well, not for me, not yet anyway. In the world, in general).

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I always find it almost miraculous that if person A thinks the world of person B, person B may happen to feel similarly back towards person A. It's like, if I think this person is the most wonderful I've ever met, why on earth would he think anything even close to that on silly little me? And yet, it works every time (well, not for me, not yet anyway. In the world, in general).

Yeah, this has caught my attention more than once. Well, it's well known that love may be unrequited, but it's the requiting that feels particularly unexpected.

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it's the requiting that feels particularly unexpected

Frankly, I've never fallen in love (well, yet), or the other way around (for the best of my knowledge), for that matters, so all the possibilities involved in this look a bit like magic to me.

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overseas holiday

My offer stands and includes AS.

And yet, it works

I think miraculous is the right word. A beautiful and amazing thing.

In the last eight or so months, I finally met and became good friends with an ex's wife. I suspect I didn't think anyone was good enough for him. They see the world in each other and it just works. They fit.

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so all the possibilities involved in this look a bit like magic to me.

And yet I have several of your posts on various topics but always this subject marked because you speak so eloquently on it. Maybe because it is magic. Even when it happens.

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Happy Anniversary, Jess and DH!

I'll see what I can do on the morrow.

Thanks!

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