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fran your dad is my new hero

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i want to be newly retired so bad

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real

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I laughed so many times reading this

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that’s what’s up!

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gorg list ty fran magazine

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

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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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need to go when back in central time

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Wait YAYYYYYY

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it was!

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

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

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

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it's great!!

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

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

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

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

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Need to know more about Blythe’s Montana lasagna.

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-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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