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Beautiful, thanks Patti. It's always so great to hear from you. Your words heartfelt, encouraging and warm 🩷🪷🌿

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Hi Patti, I teach and have the luck to have students from all over the world. Some of them are from differing sides of current conflicts and I can honestly say they show us how to be - they are friends and every day demonstrate what we could be. Their kindness is one to make and break a heart daily. Thank you for saying what you have x

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stand with children.period.

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thank you so much, Patti. I'll certainly take half-magic and a gift for the future...there seem to be a lot of pebbles in a lot of shoes these days, but there is some hope there perhaps...??

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Love ❤️ your phrase “a gift for the future”

for a treasured, breaking-apart book with all your notations that you put away - and buy a new reading copy! I do that, too.

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"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." this was a powerful quote for me to sit with. I asked myself, what is the pebble that I'm still keeping in my shoe? Thank you for this prompt. 💖

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I need full-on magic now with my life the way it is, but I’ll take half magic, I will take any snippet of magic I can get. 2024 is off to a rocky start. Hopefully it gets better. Thank God I have plans to be traveling during the Fall. Anyway, thanks for your positive outlook on life, Patti! I Where do I stand? I stand with children(absolutely) and anything that is innocent in this world: the animals(including most human beings) trees, flowers, vegetables/fruits, weeds, the soil—-Earth; all innocence which is most of the planet. Here is to magical love, laughter and books, because without books humankind would not survive, and without a sense of humor I don’t know what. Wishing everybody beautiful days to come and I wish it twice*~~*

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Patti you are so real and authentic. You make me smile and think and feel joy. Thank you.

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Love hearing from you. I too stand for the children and their happiness and wish it twice.

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It’s was great talking to you again tonight Patti. I always feel like, after listening to you, that we’ve talked with each other; not that I’ve been talked to, but that we’ve talked with each other. It’s not half magic. It’s full magic. And I wish for it to be so each time we talk - two times. ♥️

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As if their shamelessness has boundaries?

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One of the greatest books of my childhood. How lovely it is to see it again.

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Please read the book to us! Children first, always🙏🏻❤️

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It's lovely to know Cairo is still with you in her new unbound configuration.

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So cool to know how you feel about Ali. He was "somethin' else", wasn't he? I actually felt a bit of jealousy reading that you stood next to him in an elevator!

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Patti - I so respect your human being*ness and always you can stop and start your writing as you have a lit up♐ Sagittarius Horizon (Ascendant)

and then 🔙Mercury in the 1st house of your astrology -shining -buzzing with musing - communication and your ♑Capricorn sun is there -also in Aries House 1 dancing with your ♓Pisces moon in the 3rd house of communication and all relationships >>>

you are always cooking with insight and love💜💥 sorry if I am confusing you here - I just know who you are - since Horses cam out and I bought it and it was the year I turned 15 >> Diane CPA out in the world of $

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