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Michael Cummings's avatar

fran your dad is my new hero

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Andrew Truong's avatar

i want to be newly retired so bad

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

real

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Claire's avatar

I laughed so many times reading this

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

that’s what’s up!

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Kelsey McKinney's avatar

gorg list ty fran magazine

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Bridget's avatar

Happy New Year! Grateful for Fran Mag and Patrick Zweig.

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Brendan Boyle's avatar

thanks to Sam I’m going to Boonie’s for my first restaurant of 2025 …. great 2024-ing everyone see you on the other side xo

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

need to go when back in central time

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sam bodrojan's avatar

Wait YAYYYYYY

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Brendan Boyle's avatar

it was!

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Kyle's avatar

Geoff good list!!!!!! Happy New Year!!!

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

Geoff list has me wanting to reread Dracula asap....

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Brian Case's avatar

Too the list of ways to die in Elden Ring, I would like to offer this... When you are trying to abide a giant lobster/crayfish's need for privacy but it decides that you were TOO CLOSE and then pursues you across the Lands Between until you are deceased.

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

only happened once but insanely memorable / traumatic / sublime

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Jeff Kocan's avatar

Ooh, which VW show were you at? We brought our 11yo to the Sunday matinee, and now I think all concerts should start at 1 p.m. (Incredible show btw!)

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

same one!!!

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Maggie's avatar

happy new year fran mag! Fran Dad should teach a seminar for newly retired dads I would sign my dad up so fast not kidding

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Jack Riedy's avatar

extremely intrigued by this Storyworth thing for my soon-to-retire dad!

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

it's great!!

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Vanessa's avatar

Please... the pineapple upside down cake recipe.... my crops are dying

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Choni Mitchell's avatar

So glad Laura got to enjoy a live wrestling show this year!

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jt's avatar

wrt mmf’s thoughts on london food, parisians also seemed to love five guys when I lived there in 2023, odd.

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

fwiw I disagree w him on London food but I was also surprised that Londoners we spoke to love Wingstop (???)

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scarr's avatar

so glad to know there are others out there who have developed a drew starkey situation this year.

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Michael Mann Facts's avatar

Need to know more about Blythe’s Montana lasagna.

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Blythe Roberson's avatar

-it was made by Maribeth Moore whose husband Seth took me out hunting for the first time last Sept (https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a63173778/the-vegan-hunter/ LOL)

-i had a second helping cold the next day

-i ate some bear meat in 4th grade and always remembered it as super tasty and this confirmed i think it is my favorite meat

-black bear (grizzly is more of a predator and would taste super bad and also you can't hunt them anyways)

-black bears can vary a lot in taste depending what they've been eating - you want one who has been eating blackberries, not rotting salmon lol

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