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"tiny vessel" Mug filled with peppermint tea or lemon ginger    when sick with a sore throat, pancake-in-a-mug with mini chocolate chips and    pure maple syrup, or salted caramel hot chocolate with    mini marshmallows, or filled with shredded cheddar cheese as a    little late afternoon

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Calico cat sunbathes in the window. She uses her little nose to push the blinds away from the frame and squeezes her body between them and the glass Turning like liquid impossibly in the narrow space, she lays down and stretches out, white paws reaching to the window’s frame Calico

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08-14-2016 for friends fighting hard battles "be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" I wish I could give your heart peace. I wish I could say or do something to make it better. But I can only offer that I'm here