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Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n

1. It’s been ages (like since spring), but BW and I finally got a chance to have a nice, long call to catch up.<\/p>\n

2. Our volleyball team beat the #2 team on a solid hit by one of my teammates who is sometimes reluctant to spike the ball to advance to the league finals. We lost that game, but the four of us who went out for dinner afterwards agreed that it was a good night regardless.<\/p>\n

3. My new passport has arrived in record time. (Literally — it took a week.)<\/p>\n

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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