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You're a lovely woman...and a beautiful person besides. You deserve happiness. Isn't that what the Twenty Wishes are all about? Goin after the things you want in life. Places to see, people to meet, experiences to live. Don't hold back now. Go for it!
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Hold that for me.
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John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names.
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As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, "What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?" "All yours," Steve assured her."
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Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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Christmas is a condition of the heart.
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You know if it'd been three wise women searching for the newborn babe, they would have asked for directions much sooner, found the stable, swept it out, and had a meal waiting by the time Mary and Joseph arrived.
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If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.
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Palmer asked.
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Good friends, good meat. Good God, let's eat!
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clean-romance
sweet-romance
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I could break into sobs at the drop of a pin," she admitted, and tried to laugh it off, but the only sound that came out was reminiscent of something one might hear on the Syfy channel."
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With the long hours of daylight in the Alaska summers, the gardens served up a cornucopia of amazing and extra-large produce.
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romance
funny
clean
sweet
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When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn't think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.
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This had to be Finn Dalton's mother. It simply had to be. From the moment Nash had given Carrie what seemed like the impossible assignment of interviewing Finn, she'd looked for out-of-the-box ways to locate him. Her mother's mention of work on the Alaskan pipeline and that many of those employed came from Washington State had led to a breakthrough. At least she hoped so. The search led Carrie to the birth record for a Finnegan Paul Dalton,..
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it takes a hell of a man to replace no man.
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I suppose there will be the time when I'll need to consider moving into one of those assisted-living complexes. At my age it's difficult to make significant changes, but then that's life.
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My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one's point across.
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Doing something for someone else made you feel better about yourself.
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I'm late," she told him."
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be so completely trusting
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Dreams remain only wisps of enjoyable but useless imagination if we don't give them an anchor to hold to. If we don't make them determined goals. Faith in God is that anchor. It's what enables that dream to come off the shelf and sit right down in front of us.
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fear
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All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.
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you don't marry my dad, I'll never see you again. Won't you please, please marry my dad?
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Being kind is like looking at your own reflection in the calm waters of a lake. Then the act of kindness ripples those waters, like a stone tossed upon the surface.
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Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.
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I kissed her." His words were met with silence and then, "How was it?" "On a scale of one to ten, it was about a hundred."
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Merry Christmas. His would be without the Merry for sure.
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romance
festive
holiday
seattle
snow
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when we fail to be kind and loving, then we fail to be wise.
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The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations." --Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN"
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forcefully before turning back. "Would you mind waiting just a moment?" "Oh... Okay, I'll wait." Mack tore out of the house and she heard him enter his own. Three or four minutes passed before he came"
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Just being in his arms was like heaven; it felt like I was coming home.
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I ignored what was going on behind my back because that was the only way I could deal with it.
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I wondered if he thought of me or if he'd put me out of his heart as effectively as he'd put me out of his life.
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It was the kind of kiss that had the power to melt the panties right off a girl.
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We get so busy that it's easy to let some things slide. We can either pick them up again, or let them stay lost.... I never thought about knitting like that, though.
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working together instead of against each other is a win-win.
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life--and that of her child.
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Unfortunately he'd fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.
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It started to snow--light flakes that drifted down from the heavens like small feathers released from angel pillows.
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Then, in the tranquility of church on Christmas Eve, everything had come into perspective for Cait. There had been crowds and rudeness that first Christmas, too, she reasoned. Yet in the midst of that confusion had come joy and peace and love.
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December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.
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We certainly would," Cliff said. "Seth's family is waiting for us," Justine told them. "But thanks for the invite." She smiled as Cal came in with another two bags. "And thanks, Cal,"
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A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person.
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Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women.
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