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Unread 05-26-2021, 05:08 AM
Jim Moonan Jim Moonan is offline
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The good news, though it did not come easily, is that my son and his wife gave birth to Shakespearean twins -- Julliette and Ophelia -- after a harrowing cesarean and rare genetic allergic reaction to anesthesia. After nearly four hours of unconsciousness and frantic scrambling to get things under control, the mom came back from some kind of oblivion and now all is well. The girls are swaddled tight in the NICU. Love survives wherever, however, whenever it can.

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Unread 05-26-2021, 08:12 AM
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Great news, Jim. Continued good health to all.
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Unread 05-26-2021, 08:33 AM
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A warm welcome to the twins, best wishes to the new mother for a speedy return to full health and vitality, and a high five for the grandfather.
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Unread 05-26-2021, 09:53 AM
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Wow, congratulations and awe after what sounds like a very bumpy experience. What beautiful names for the twins, too.

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The good news, though it did not come easily, is that my son and his wife gave birth to Shakespearean twins -- Julliette and Ophelia -- after a harrowing cesarean and rare genetic allergic reaction to anesthesia. After nearly four hours of unconsciousness and frantic scrambling to get things under control, the mom came back from some kind of oblivion and now all is well. The girls are swaddled tight in the NICU. Love survives wherever, however, whenever it can.

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Wow -- congrats indeed! Although it's a shame that your son and his wife didn't opt for Imogen and Innogen. That might have single-handedly settled a long-running textual crux...
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Yes, congrats.


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Driving home, the apple blossom just out in the orchards, the tiny man in the too-high swaying antique tractor, the hedgerows full to bursting of waist-high buttercups. And isn’t it just like lemon-juice squeezed on a cut, that compressed unruly happiness when you least expect it?
That's delightful, Sarah-Jane. It could just turn into a perfect pocket poem :-)

I'll PM re. the GPG and a couple of other things, after I've had my Fortisip (yum).
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Always the bridesmaid!

(In other news, my first book is finished and I'm spending the summer taking a respite from poetry. Phew!)
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That's fabulous!

(And who needs a stay at the Ace Hotel anyway?)
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Unread 06-03-2021, 05:15 PM
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Jim, twins are an armful. Glad things are all good.
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Unread 06-03-2021, 05:19 PM
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Walter, is your book as weirdly (I mean that as praise) lexicolic as I might expect? We crave a sample or figgy pudding.
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