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You're so close to us!

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Where?

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We live half the year in Hayden, Idaho, next lake over from Coeur D'Alene😊

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I’ve lived in CdA and Spokane and still spend a fair amount of time there.

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That's why your photos and poems seem so close to where I'm at💕

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The clash between the first and the second parts is startling. It sat me back.

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How so?

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The peaceful morning, soft, then the shotgun image, the word ‘bust’ seemed hard. I’ve reread it since and see it’s not. Wasn’t in tune (me) that’s all. On me. (One of the kids is travelling, maybe it’s that.)

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You’ve heard the expression, right? It’s pretty innocuous in contemporary usage. Although i like the idea of my eighty-two year old mother being armed and dangerous in North Idaho.

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Yes! I have - but who knows where my head was when I first read it?

And (haha) I’ve no doubt your mom would be up for doing what needed to be done to keep you guys safe btw. (Even at age 97 when I last saw her my mom would have been up to defend us!)

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The usual audio recording might've helped -- which I've now added.

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Well It’s about time!

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LOL -- difficult to do while driving.

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😄

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