The Birthday Present

by Barbara Vine

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Catching up with a big backlog of read books, hence very short writeups.

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🍕I’d worried we’d miss out on interval pizzas because the last minuteness made it too late to pre-order but we were able to get them.

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