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deletedOct 18, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden
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Is that bodyguard available for hire? I would like to avail their services too 😁

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Oct 18, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden

Hahahaha!!! Chuckle, chuckle. Love it, love it, love it. Your attention to detail and ability to shower all around you in hot beverages is admirable!! And look at those smiles!! Absolutely adorable. Thank you SO much. 🤗🤗😘

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Beautifully done, Rebecca, and such a happy quartet (thank you for sharing the pictures!) 💚

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This is the best way for me to get out of bed and start my day--with hearty laughter! It’s barely 6:45 AM here, and must be almost time for your lunch and a “cuppa” on your little ‘chunk’ of the planet.

Thoroughly enjoyed your meet-up with Terry and Elaine. Although I can’t help but feel when it comes to trying to be helpful, our height and coltish countenance of being all arms and legs does make for some entertaining, if somewhat embarrassing moments. Fortunately we can always laugh later about our humiliations of showering drinks on others.

I wish we had the much smaller shoe eating vixens to fear here on my corner of the planet! In Maine, my biggest fear is seeing a bear up close and personal. Which I have yet to experience and intend that I never do! They would eat the whole person and spit out the shoes. Just kidding.

OK, time to get out of bed and do my walkabout. Thank you for jumpstarting my day and I shall be replaying your story in my head as I wander. Maybe I’ll even chance getting lost. 😉 🤗

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Oct 18, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden

I loved reading about you and Jim's meeting with Terry and Elaine. :).

Maybe next time you will get to meet the bodyguards?

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Love everything about this! 🎉

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What a great storytelling Rebecca! You had me laughing and smiling much of the way. :) Lovely photos.

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The idea of meeting someone you have come to "know" only through correspondence is so intriguing.

I thoroughly enjoyed you account of the meeting and the pictures too.

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I think Chunk is a technical term. It might be Terry that needs to brush up on Geography.

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Love the photos. My fellow substackers are adorbs. Entourage as well. Was hubby the designated photographer/paparazzi? And after all your tea musings coffee was the beverage of choice. Hehehe.

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Beautiful photos. Thanks so much for sharing, Rebecca.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden

Hilarious from first to last, from foxes to wobbly tables! (I think Elaine may have been the hero of the day, taking the role of guide) Thank you so much for the wonderful photos. I feel I know you better now. The only photo I'd ever seen of your husband was in the gorgeous wedding photo when you both seemed so young. I was interested to see how distinguished he looks now. You have been a good influence on him. ha ha ha. You are tall, so he must be at least 6'5"?? I will treasure the photos of Terry, as he is actually SMILING in them. You are all so cute.

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Great story of your meeting with Terry and Elaine. It made it seem like we were right there with you. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I laughed throughout the whole thing.

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“Because, Reader, it had not escaped my attention that it was Elaine who’d been leading the way so far...”

This is some Sixth Sense plot twist business here. 😂

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Oct 20, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden

Loved it!!! Would have loved to observed the comedy of errors first hand! It would make a terrific film!

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