Bitterroot

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Wendy’s

November 6, 6:30

A rare full attendance!
Pizzelle for the one that she passed up
Steve making potato pizza in the shape of Idaho
“I filled a couple jelly jars with ice cubes and 🍑 -ginger tea, my head spinning with next steps.”

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Gender reveal cake
Charlottes web reference

The Carlton Sisters

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Martha’s

October 9th, 6:30

Reservations for 12

Special guest Dian

🍑 yogurt. “Who the hell eats yogurt? I need coffee.”

“Give me 🍑 es and oranges, I can tell the difference.”
Old Spice and cigarettes, a particular smell you never forget, lay heavy on his clothes. He gave me an observant eye. “I’d say you’re more like a 🍑.”

Sadly Alexis could not make it with the biscuits and gravy
“Like I was a stranger, someone who just happened to stay for coffee and donuts on Sunday, someone you talked to about the 🍑 harvest or water shortage.”
“The half pint of 🍑 brandy I’d hidden under the seat went down too fast, half-gone before I’d even passed the Sunny Acres sign. ”
“Oversized and Spanish in style, its 🍑 color and standard terra-cotta rounded tiles on the roof were meant to persuade you it belonged in the neighborhood”
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I had no idea how long we walked. Lorraine, in a predictable 🍑 gathered skirt”
“Now, 🍑 es with their round globes hung inside the orchard’s green trees”
“Trunks and boxes and shelves of canned 🍑es and dill pickles, everything old or homemade or hand-me-down.”
Julie Becky and Loraine

“Almond blossoms in February. Every February. You know it’s that time of year when you see them. And 🍑 es at roadside stands in July,” I said. “Peaches and the smell of 🍑 es. Every July, that smell and that taste—juice running down your chin. We don’t get them all year long, so it means something.”

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑.5

Heartwood

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Shaneen’s

June 25, 6:30 pm

Section in Vermont where the AT trail and the Long trail intersect near Killington, VT

“I went to my sixth-grade dance in a frilly 🍑 dress”

“I don’t know how I would have endured being myself—a girl-monster in a 🍑 dress, the only female in the law enforcement training program, the one who left Ma behind in Massachusetts even though I knew she depended on me, the lady warden eating solo at the two-top.”

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Our awesome hostess. Thanks for the field trip scavenger hunt!
Sparrow cookies!
Some additional matches
Or a handy fire starter!
Hey! What’s up with that label!
Thanks for the earrings!

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑

The Life Impossible

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Tila’s house

March 31, 6:30

“She said there was nothing more healing than gardening, and I think she is right”

“We are here for each other. The point of life is life. All life. We need to look after each other.”

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“Sure, in each moment we have never been so old, but we are of course also the youngest we will ever be. ”

La Presencia