Running With Quills: Fresh meat! Er, that is, a guest in our abode.

Welcome to Running With Quills, your online newsletter designed to keep you up to date with what your favorite authors (that would be us) are doing throughout the year. Here you will find the release dates of our new books and get information about our backlists. We'll preview our cover art here long before the books hit the stores and we'll keep you informed about works-in-progress and special projects. You'll also receive advance notice of signings and appearances. From time to time we'll give you a peek at our worlds, tell you what we're reading, and introduce you to some new authors.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Fresh meat! Er, that is, a guest in our abode.

Hey, y'all. Today we have a guest blogger. I'm not as yet personally familiar with Kathryn Caskie's books, but I love Regency historicals, so I'm penciling her in at the top of my Gotta Check It Out list. Kathryn is the USA Today Bestselling author of seven Regency-set historical romances. Her upcoming release for Avon Books, HOW TO PROPOSE TO A PRINCE, will be in stores next Tuesday (February 26th). She lives in Virginia in a 200 year old house with her family, including two neurotic Border Collies, a Chihuahua with a Napoleon complex and two cats inclined to ignore them all.

Please join me in welcoming her. Take it away, Kathy!

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Thank you for inviting me to come blog on Running with Quills. You are all queens of romance in my book and I feel like a fan girl to be in your cyber presence.

Is it just an author thing, or when anyone meets a couple for the first time, does he or she feel compelled to ask "So, how did you two meet?"

I love to hear stories of how someone came to be with the love of his or her life. You'd be surprised, too, at the number of time some element of someone's first meeting made its way into my books. Sure, I make it a little more dramatic and fun, but the essence of someone's story is usually at its core.

That is, until I wrote the first chapter of my February 26th release for Avon Books, How to Propose to a Prince. Made it all up. I was convinced that there was no way on God's green earth this would happen in real life. The chapter is posted on my site KathrynCaskie.com so you can read it for yourself.

In my story, Elizabeth Royle, has had prophetic dreams her entire life--but only about half come true. But when the man she knows she will marry steps straight out of her dreams and into her life, she knows for certain they are destined to marry. Never mind that he is Prince Leopold, and is in London to woo Prince Charlotte. She knows Fate is on her side.

But, you know, the chapter hadn't been posted for two days before I received an email from a woman who read the excerpt and was startled by the similarities. She said that for years before she met her now husband, she had had dreams about meeting him. She knew what the man she would marry looked like, she even saw the house where they would one day live. And here is the kicker--it turned out, when they finally did meet, that he had been dreaming of her too. They have been married for decades now.

Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?

Tell us the story of how you and your significant other met. Then, tell us what you think. Is there a special someone out there meant for of each us?

Prizes are to be had for the best stories or observations (signed books for readers, or a critique of the first ten pages of the winners manuscript for aspiring authors--add AA to start of your post if you are interested in the critique, please.)

42 Comments:

DFender said...: Welcome to RWQ, Kathy! Nice to "meet" you. I've not read your stories yet, but I'll be sure to look 'em up.

The HHP and myself. Well. This'll probably be more lengthy than you anticipated but there's no easy way...LOL.

In 1997 I joined a MSN public chatroom site called AfterHours #2. It was my first foray into cyberspace interaction and I loved it. It wasn't a "dating" site, it was just a room for people from everydamnwhere to talk. Cyber-people-watching, even. I made lifelong friends there and we've stuck it out to this day... LOL.

In any case, in 1999 I was talking in the room and a very witty, acerbic sense of humor caught my eye. We began chatting and soon learned we had the same whacked sense of humor. In the interest of shortening this post, I'll just say that we progressed from chatting, to the telephone to, after almost a year, meeting in person. He was a cop in Portland, Oregon and I was a single Mom of two in Ohio.

Being a cautious Mom, I flew out his way first to meet him. Rode along with him on duty. Had a wonderful time. We kept flying back and forth for a year, although he did most of the traveling. He chose to move here, to Ohio and rent an apartment in 2001. He proposed to me in 2002.

I pulled into my garage and followed a trail of rose petals into my house, through to the family room where my two kids and my boyfriend were each on one knee. My daughter opened a ring box in which was written "Will", my son opened a ring box, in which was written "You" and my then boyfriend opened a ring box and said "Marry ME?!?!" Oy, the friggin' sobfest. How uber girliee! LOL

We were married in 2003 and are looking forward to our 5th anniversary on March 14.

Go us! LOL. YaY for the internet.

Happy Friday!
Deb; 4:55 AM
Lori Foster said...: Hi Kathy!
First, let me say that I LOVE your red jacket/shirt in your photo. I just went out yesterday and bought two new "red" items. It's the only color I wear often. For me, it's either bluejean, black or white. LOL

I met my hubby on the 3rd day of our sophomore year of High school. He switched history classes, and I went madly in love on sight. I got his phone number from a friend, let my mother convince me to call him, and we ended up talking for hours. He jokes now that his ear was sweating by the time we hung up. LOL
This June, we'll celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary.

HUGS!

Lori; 6:51 AM
Elyssa Papa said...: AA

Hi Kathy! What an awesome blog. I love "how they met stories"... I find them incredibly romantic.

I *wish* I had dreams like that. And how kismet that the man had the same dreams about his future wife. And how great they married and are still are married.

A couple of years ago... I ran into a man that literally gave me the reaction you only read about in romance novels: tingly, goosebumps, heart pounding--everything. I never talked to him... I couldn't talk to him seeing how my tongue was stuck to my jaw and how I was checking him out, including his sexy butt. Swear to God, to this day, I've never seen a guy who wore jeans like this man did. He had dark wavy hair and the bluest eyes I've ever seen.

But all I did was stare and gawk. I felt like this guy was "the" one. But I did nothing... and then I did the stupidest thing EVER, I left Starbucks and went home, kicking myself the whole way for not at least staying and perhaps just watching him.

I went back to the same Starbucks and the same night I saw this guy, but I never saw him again. If I hadn't had such a visceral (sp.) and gut reaction to the Starbucks Man, I would think it was all a dream.

But it wasn't.

And well, who knows what the future would hold? At the very least, it's an idea I can use for a book. LOL.; 7:00 AM
Kim said...: Hi Kathy! Since I totally believe in prophetic dreams the way Elizabeth and Leopold meet is incredible! How exciting.

My DH and I meet when I was a sophmore in HS and he was the older bad boy my best friend introduced me to. It was at the local race track and involved things teenagers shouldn't be doing. Including locking his friend in the porta potty and trying to tip it over *g*

We've both since settled down A LOT and just this week celebrated our 17th anniversary!

Definitely, I do believe that there is a special someone out there for everyone. They just have to find each other.; 7:08 AM
Tiffany Kenzie said...: AA

Hi Kathy! This is a great blog, and I totally love these stories… I’m a sucker for them. This is why I love romance.

And reading over what that lady said about the dream gave me goose bumps.

It’s the whole soul mate thing. Do you have a soul mate? Do you believe in a soul mate? Heck yeah! Of course I believe, because I’m a romantic, because I’m a dreamer (not in the sense of dreams), but you just know when you’ve met *the* one.

I think if you keep your mind open and most of all your heart open it’ll happen to you. Kind of like a knock over the noggin. A Huge Oh My God moment. Bam you just can’t believe it is actually happening to you!

Have I met my soul mate? Yes. Am I with my soul mate? No. Silly on my part really, but I know he’s out there. And I know that in our next life we’ll get another chance. Because that’s that great thing about soul mates— it’s the kind of love that lasts through lifetimes… soul mates are eternal. Forever… how can a romantic not think this?

And because the man is my idol and one of the few artists to express so beautifully in words what his soul mate was to him—and because he KNEW who she was and could express himself so freely. I give you a small excerpt of Beethoven’s famous immortal beloved letters:

-can our love endure except through sacrifices, through not demanding everything from one another; can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine - Oh God.

I’m sure as romance writers and readers most of you have read them, but they speak to me on such a personal level… if you’d like to read them in full—
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~simonj/lvb/ib.html; 7:29 AM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Forgive my delay. We had an ice storm last night--kids have no school- and my broadband is blinking in and out.

Deb, I love your story, because you fell in love with his mind before knowing the rest of him. The internet really isn't so different from the days when men and women courted each other through inked letters. It's all rather traditional if you think about it.

Kathy; 7:44 AM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Lori, our closet must look the same. Black, white, red. Oh, maybe a deep coral in the summer. To go with the black. My kids said they were going to turn "the black widow" in to What Not to Wear. I don't see the problem. Black is slimming and like Grr Animals for kids. Pick a top, pick some pants. It all goes together.

Congrats on coming up on 30 years together. Though I have to admit, your story scares me a bit. If I thought my teenage daughter would be together with her boyfriend for 30 years...OMIGOD, kill me now.

Kathryn/Kathy; 7:49 AM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Elyssa,

How long ago did this happen? I'd be heading for that Starbucks right now. I have a friend, who totally believes in fate, like my heroing in How to Propose to a Prince. She would say you will meet him again. I hope you do. If not, you are right, great fodder for a stories.

I had a moment like that once. I was in New York, walking across a cross walk in Manhattan. Coming from the other direction was this gorgeous, tall, dark haired man. He looked like a model for some financial ad. I don't know how I was looking at him (I know I was thinking he was hero material), but as we passed he reached out and took my hand and squeezed it. We both kept walking a few steps. I turned around and he had stopped too and was looking back at me smiling. I smiled too. Then a car honked at me and I had to hurry across the street. I call it my New York Moment. Nothing happened, but ohhhh the stories that I could tell from that one little touch.

Kathy; 7:57 AM
Elyssa Papa said...: Kathy, LOL. It happened three years ago, and I remember every single detail of that meeting. Including his mud-crusted jeans toward the end. I even remember the date and time! And I don't remember anything about people.

All my memory is good for is books and comments people make.

The New York moment... jeez, I'm getting tingles thinking about the Miss.; 8:07 AM
Elyssa Papa said...: Grrr. I meant to type the Missed Opportunity. Stupid typing fingers! LOL; 8:08 AM
Jayne Ann Krentz said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 8:27 AM
Jayne Ann Krentz said...: Oops, that "comment deleted" was me. Early morning typo issues! Just wanted to say (again)welcome to RWQ, Kathy and thanks so much for blogging with us. HOW TO PROPOSE TO A PRINCE looks great. Best of luck with the book.

--Jayne; 8:29 AM
Kim said...: Kathy! What a story! OMG, you totally need to turn that into a contemp story. I can see it now, he was on the run for high level embezzling. You're the FBI agent who's hunting for him but you don't know he's your target. You keep having all these "moments" all over NYC, finally havig a rushed but very satisfying moment in an elevator. He losses his wallet and you finally figure out he's the man you're looking for, in more ways than one. Now you have to decide to arrest him or try to prove him innocent. Sorta a Thomas Crown affair story.

umm, I think I got a little carried away there *g* but you get the gist. ;); 9:55 AM
Stella said...: Welcome, Kathy! I'm looking forward to HOW TO PROPOSE TO A PRINCE. Great blog--the best ones always bring answers you love to read. Cheers, Stella; 10:02 AM
DFender said...: Did anyone else notice that Jayne and Stella kept their "meeting story" to themselves??? LOLOL. How disappointing! Especially since they're both so lucky in love. Inquiring minds 'n all that... ha!

Deb; 10:59 AM
Kathryn Caskie said...: I somehow zapped my last reply, so I will try again.

Tiffany, I found your comments very interesting. It made we wonder...if you believe in a soul mate, must you also believe in fate?

Kathryn; 11:00 AM
Kathryn Caskie said...: You are so right, Deb!

Jayne and Stella, have a meeting story to share?

Kathryn; 11:03 AM
terrio said...: AA

How have I never found this blog before? I have been adoring Elizabeth Lowell for YEARS and recently added Jayne Ann Krentz to my buying list. I had no idea you all were right here!

Anyway, I'm not sure he was my soul mate but he's been the love of my life to this point. Back in 2003 I had been divorced for a little over a year and a friend convinced me to try online dating. I was appalled. There was no way. But I browsed the ads (after much nagging) and found one that I liked. I didn't have much money so sent a message to him through my friend's account with my email. We did the email thing for about a month then he showed up at a festival where I was the MC. I was a DJ at the time.

Anyway, one of the sound guys tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I have someone for you to meet." When he said his name, it took me about 20 seconds to figure out who he was. It was like flipping a switch.

I have never felt that kind of attraction or connection. It was like we'd known each other forever. We were together on and off for the next year and are still friends today. I really doubt I'll have a similar experience again but a girl can dream. *g*

I'm loving all these stories so far. That proposal with the kids is great and that meeting sophomore year one is wonderful.

Kathy - that NYC story is right out of a movie. I want one of those stories. LOL!; 11:19 AM
Sara Lindsey said...: AA

Hi Kathy,

I met you last year in Dallas after the RITAs... whatever ended up happening with those cowboys, btw?
I completely believe in True Love and Fate and that there's someone special out there meant for each of us.
Sadly, I haven't met him yet.
I haven't met anyone remotely close to him, but I just joined JDate (OMG, did I just admit that in public?!) so we'll see if that brings any frogs or princes out of hiding!

Best,

Sara; 11:23 AM
Tiffany Kenzie said...: Kathy,

I do indeed believe in fate. Makes life so interesting wonder why certain things come to pass.; 11:26 AM
Tiffany Kenzie said...: sorry missed the 'ing' on wonder...; 11:27 AM
Elizabeth Guest said...: Welcome to RWQ, Kathy! It's great to have you here. I have always loved stories with princes and princesses and am really looking forward to HOW TO PROPOSE TO A PRINCE!

Happy weekend all!
~EG; 12:32 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Hi Terrio and Sara!

Hey, internet dating is just a modern way to accomplish what matchmakers have been doing for years, right?

Oh, and the cowboy two-step place. LOL. I danced with Kim and Keira and Kayla Perrin. We had fun!

Kathy; 1:34 PM
Kim said...: Sara! You know, I still have pictures of THE cowboy. I take it out now and then when my husband mis-behaves. LOL. We did have a blast!

Jayne and Stella--you need to share too! I'll be you both have great stories to share. C'mon.; 1:49 PM
Janga said...: AA
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize a soul mate. My best beloved was my cousin's best friend. He was always around, just one of a pack of boys that alternately intrigued and irritated me. Then one April evening in a library parking lot, he put his hand against my face and said. "I always keep my promises." I fell in love in that moment.

Neither of us could have known as spring followed spring that his keeping promises to Uncle Sam would end our dreams of raising roses and babies. Having had the best, I have never been able to settle for less. But I do believe some loves are eternal, and while I was denied the reunion my heart longed for, I believe my soul mate and I will have our reunion one day.; 2:45 PM
DFender said...: *sniff*sniff* Aw... damn.; 2:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Just had to pop in to give a shout to my pal, Kathryn Caskie! Can't wait to read How to Propose a Prince next TUESDAY! OK, I will admit that I already know it is fabulous...

I love your topic. And I just finished telling my "how I met" story on the Lifetime.tv blog today since we're talking about osculum or kisses! Here it is:
It began with a concert. He was a classical trumpet player with the National Symphony Orchestra. Gosh, he was a handsome man. Dark hair, steel gray eyes, and magnificent lips he kept using on that gleaming horn.

Then all through the after-concert dinner, he kept staring at me, despite the fact that we were with four relatives. He barely said a word while my cousin kept giggling and kicking me under the table of this posh restaurant. The thing was, I knew so much about him and he knew all about me. Our relatives were best friends and had planned this set up forever.

Our cars were the last to arrive from the valet, and under cover of darkness, he pulled me into his arms and whispered my name over and over between the most achingly perfect kisses I’ve ever know. Yes, it was love at first sight-and first kiss for me.

It was not quite so romantic on his end. Later he admitted he had been so dizzy from Nyquil and shots of whiskey (a brass section tradition) that he had been mute and stared at me because he needed a point to look at since the room was spinning.

We married about a thousand and one kisses later.

Kisses from Sophia Nash; 3:36 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Okay, Janga, blinking the tears back...; 3:41 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: I should mention that Sophia Nash's book THE KISS is also hitting the stores on Tuesday-- and, like its title, it's delicious.

So, it's time for the first random drawing for a signed copy of How to Seduce a Duke, the first book in my Royle sisters trilogy...drum roll....the winner is Deb aka dfender! (I will contact you through the Quills, okay?)

More goodies to come. Stay tuned.

Kathy; 3:56 PM
susan andersen said...: Hi, Kathy. Sorry I'm so late chiming in. Had a minor medical procedure this morning and am just sitting down to the computer.

I'm another who met my husband young. I had a girlfriend who lived across the street and her new boyfriend wanted to hook me up with one of his friends. The first guy he brought to meet me at Karen's house was 25. I was 16, so big Ew. I mumbled something about my mother calling me and booked out of there.

He hit the bulls-eye, however, with the next guy. Who knew that one would turn out to be my soul mate? Which is not to say we haven't had our ups and downs--but haven't most married couples? March 28th we'll celebrate our 39th anniversary.

Great blog.

And Kim! You are gooood, girl with plots! I'm gonna call you if anything ever happens to my brainstorming partner!; 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi All
Yet another title and author to check out - one of the reasons I love this blog so much. Another is the sharing - here's my story.

DM and I met in Spanish class in high school. He was with someone else so we were just friends until she broke up with him. We dated until the end of the school year and into that summer, but his being three years older than me and away from high school got a little strange and we called it off.

Over the years we would run into each other and loved catching up and talking. At more than one party I ended up making more than one girlfriend mad; we could just talk so easily together.

Five years later a mutual friend dragged me to another party and he was there and not with anyone. This time we were free to do more than talk. We're not married yet, but probably will be in 2010. It's been a little over 13 years and things just keep getting better for us. We still love to talk to each other.

Maybe all those meetings over the years was fate reminding us about each other.

Sue (aka Zeusly); 5:02 PM
DFender said...: Holy... wow! Thank you SO much, Kathy. I really look forward to reading your stories and I'm thrilled to be able to do so with your generous gift! The start of a trilogy... my favorite kinda reading. Characters that become like friends. Nice ;-) Thanks again!
Deb; 5:38 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Sue,

I love that after years of coming close you and your soul mate have come together. And in 2010 I want to hear about your happily ever after!

Kathy; 5:43 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Well, it's almost ten p.m. here, so I am going to choose the final two winners.

Winner of a signed copy of How to Engage an Earl...is Sara L.

And the winner of the critique of the first ten pages of a manuscript is...Elyssa!

I will contact you both through the amazing authors at Running With Quills.

Thank you ladies for hosting me on your blog and thank everyone for sharing such wonderful stories.

Be sure to look for How to Propose to a Prince (the story of three sisters who may be the secret daughters of the Prince of Wales) beginning February 26th!

Wishing you all a happily ever after.

Cheers,

Kathy
www.kathryncaskie.com; 7:00 PM
Elyssa Papa said...: Yay!!! I'm so excited!!!! This is such great news. Happy dancing right now. (Thank god, I can burn off the chocolate mousse I ate)! *g*; 8:28 PM
karende said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 11:08 PM
karibear said...: What is WITH Blogger?! I managed to lose half of my post, so I was going to delete it and start over, and now it tells me I don't have an account! And it won't let me create an account with the 'new, improved' blogger, it tells me to go back to the old one - so I do, and it tells me once again, I don't HAVE an account.

If I don't have an account, why on earth does it let me post here?!

Confused and frustrated and I really WISH when something worked, they'd just leave it alone!; 11:18 PM
karibear said...: And after telling me I didn't have an account, it appears that my post was deleted after all. So here's the whole thing:

Better late than never - I’ve had puter problems for so long I don’t know what it’s like to not get cut off, anymore.

DH and I met in ‘86. October 10, in fact. He was going to be an early birthday present to myself, a one-night stand before I turned 40. As it turned out, we clicked big time. He never did go back to the place where he’d been living, other than to pick up his stuff. I’ve always believed in reincarnation, and it turned out he did, too. I’d been married 20-odd years earlier and swore I’d never do it again. Well, never say never, you always have to eat your words. We were together from 10/10/86 until he died last November, and I fully expect to find him again on another round, some lifetime.; 11:21 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: Karibear, I am so glad you pushed through the blogger problems to post your story. I saw a movie called The Fountain once. The movie was forgettable but the core of it was not--that we will be with our soul mate again and again beyond this life. I loved that thought. Thank you for sharing your story.

Hugs,
Kathy; 4:24 PM
psuedonyms.....hmmmm said...: well as to how me and my fiance met it was really simple but yeah we met at church i hadn't gone to the church he went to that day i went to a different church building same church but i had to stop by there while everyone was still there so that i could transfer my records and all that but anyways i showed up sweaty and gross wearing the most unflattering pair of clothing i owned because i really could care less what others thought of how i dressed they were comfortable. anyways i just walked in and the bishop was occupied at the moment so i just grabbed a random chair, (church service was over so i didn't interrupt anything, whew) the chair happened to be beside him and i thought sweet a new person i don't know i like to meet new people so i turned to him said hi my names errin he siad hi back and that was it. i thought wow what a scintillating conversationalist. i then ignored him and did my stuff then went home. a few days later him and a mutual friend of ours show up on my doorstep asking me if i was doing anything and did i want to go and hang and do stuff. i thought wow this is weird i just moved in and i already am getting a social life. cause before i moved into the city i lived in a tiny village where everyone was old enough to be my grandparents or my great grandparents. i thought sure why not, jeremy (who is my significant other) didn't say a word the whole time and i thought it was my friend being kind so i went out with them we watched a movie and a week later i ended up dating jeremy i still thought that, that night was all my friends doing and so i was talking to my friend later about it and he said whoa that was not me who suggested we go get you it was jeremy. i was confused and later asked jeremy about it he told me that the first time he saw me he wanted to go out with me. now we are engaged and are getting married in 6 months. but yeah thats my story nothing to amazing about it but i still think it's cute.; 4:37 PM
Kathryn Caskie said...: I think your story IS adorable and I love that Jeremy KNEW. He did.
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. I hope you post pics!

Kathy, the biggest romantic around; 5:56 PM
Angela said...: I just wanted to stop by to tell my how I met my hubby story..
I was living at home, yes I was still staying with my parents after high school and was doing nothing with my life..
Until one day, fed up with asking my mother for rides(I had no car, no job.Ie, I was a loser) Anywho, I found a job posting board at the local grocery store and thought, why not get a job here?
So, I begged mama to take me to the store and to be my transportation after I got the job.. After I finally conviced her, I realized that I did not know which department I would work in.. And, my mom suggested the deli..
Fast forward, I see this guy in front of the deli, he's sweeping the floor, and he waves at me..
I think, this guy is weird, he's waving and I don't even know him, but, I wave back anyway..
Fast forward again, I meet his sister and we become good friends(She works at this same grocery store).. And, this guy, my future hubby works on the cheesewall and comes to the deli occasionally to help out..
FYI, I did not these two were brother and sister for almost a month, until she finally tells me so...
Anywho, before that, we have the usual mixups.. I see him flirting and chatting with a red head and assume he's dating her, so I don't give him a second look..
Weeks go by and eventually we begin chatting(He would sit with me after my shift and would wait with me until my mother came to pick me up)In essence, we became friends.
Fast forward, I develop a crush on him but, am afraid that he has a girlfriend or he won't like me that way..
So, nine months go by before I even have the courage to ask him for his home phone number.
We're goofing off, talking and I jokingly say, "My name is Angie and I grew up in a trailor park and my number is*******, and he laughs and says a goofy spiel about himself, and wa, la, we have each other's phone numbers.
He says he will call the next day, and guess what? He does!
We talked for hours about his computer and such..
The next day, I called him, finally getting up the courage to ask him out.. And, he accepts!
We make a date, go to the movies and the rest is history..
We have been married now for almost seven years.
Final note:His mother had suggested that he work in the deli also, how eerie is that?
And,years before, I did have a dream about a man, but, he was only a vague shadow and I got upset because I never saw his face... That dream occured once a week for all through high school, then it stopped when I graduated.
I believe that some things are meant to be and sometimes you need a little help, ie, from guides like your parents..
Thanks for taking your time to read. Love ya all.; 3:08 PM

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Fresh meat! Er, that is, a guest in our abode.

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