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Thirdly, I’ve still not printed the photos I promised you and for that, I suck. I’m on it, it’s always on my mind and maybe this is the week I’ll make good on my promise.<\/p>\n
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I won’t write any more here cos it puts the whole balance of the design out when there’s tons of text. I’m offski \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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