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                    Happy New Year my dear friend
                
                Please extend my wishes to your lovely lady.  Make room at your table for me next year OK?
                
                    posted by
                    bel_1965
                     on December 31, 2006 at 10:31 AM
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                    Pat_B
                
                          Thank you.    
  We're off out to a party soon, just dropped in to post New Year good wishes and another little piece.
  I shall certainly read you tomorrow.
  Feliz ano. That mean the whole year!
   
                
                    posted by
                    ariel70
                     on December 31, 2006 at 10:25 AM
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                    El Tel -- Felice Navidad - Happy New Year... all that and more!
                
                    I have to share with you a discovery I just made. I know it's more than a day late and a dollar short, but ... Rainier Marie Rilke.  I've no idea why I didn't spend hours reading and studying this fabulous poet in college -- but I'm so glad to have found him now. 
  One of his poems made me think of you: "Spanish Dancer."  I posted it a few minutes ago under my fiction blog -- Blackmare Stories. Here's hoping you get a minute between parties to take a look.  But life, first. Blogit a distant second. :)pat
                
                    posted by
                    Pat_B
                     on December 31, 2006 at 8:52 AM
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                    Nautikos
                
                                 
  Thank you! I'm posting a sequel, and New Year good wishes later on.
  Out with friends tonight, got two more parties of about 20 Spanish/British friends in the next couple of weeks, then Phew! we can settle back into our customary state of slothful indolence.
  I haven't forgotten that lengthy comment on your magnificent posts, which I found most impressive. Should be required reading for everybody! Especially politicians, who are in a state of denial ; and taking us with them.
  We wish you and family a very happy New year(s)
                
                    posted by
                    ariel70
                     on December 31, 2006 at 7:44 AM
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                    ariel, 
                
                sounds like my kind of lunch! I do hope you have the strength left to toast the New Year tonight. With that in mind, I wish you and yours a 
Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2007!
                
                    posted by
                    Nautikos
                     on December 31, 2006 at 7:38 AM
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                    posted by
                    Blue_feathers
                     on December 30, 2006 at 3:09 PM
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                    Your right Ariel70, I should move there!
                
                
                
                    posted by
                    CringeintheUSA
                     on December 30, 2006 at 10:51 AM
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                    have fun.
                
                
                
                    posted by
                    Amanda__
                     on December 30, 2006 at 9:31 AM
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