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I purchased some cotton spun with angora some time ago, as a bargain bag (several skeins together). I’ve been saving it, not certain what to create with this amazingly soft yarn. Finally, I decided on a simple sweater: the modified drop-shoulder pullover from Ann Budd’s wonderful book, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic [...]

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God bless him.

Enjoy, won’t you, Dateline’s To Catch a Predator, New Jersey: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Thank you, gegan249.

If you’re interested in reading any unexpurgated chat logs, simply search by screen name at perverted-justice.com (only recommended for adults, honestly).

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I just packed the contents of my dollhouse.

Yes, I’m 36 and I have a dollhouse. Stay with me, here, people.

As a precursor to the final packing job, I emptied all but the largest pieces of furniture into a small box. Contents of shelves, the icebox, toys…the whole works. I now know what it would feel [...]

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Dustin Diamond will be writing (let me clarify, a ghost writer will be writing) a behind-the-scenes tell-all about Saved by the Bell, called (wait for it) Behind the Bell. (source)

I highly suggest skipping this one, or running away from it, and reading Barbara Walters’ Audition instead, for your behind-the-scenes needs. Please.

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Family of books

I am a part of everything that I have read.

— Thomas Roosevelt

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Good-bye.

I’ll miss you, man.

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This century’s Make Way for Ducklings mom has stepped forward, by rescuing her six ducklings from the sewer.

She followed them above ground for over an hour, then waited with them for four hours more, until alert humans realized the ducklings’ plight.

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the PostSecret books, compiled by Frank Warren

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Haunted Family

Before chasing spirits was popularized by television ghost hunters armed with digital gadgetry and infrared video, one young woman traveled to the darkest corners of the globe, communing with the dead and chronicling her experiences in pen and ink.

At the time, Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden was married to famous paranormalist and author of 140 books Hans [...]

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Oh the Glory of It All * Sean Wilsey

His mother’s response, in book form: Oh the Hell of It All * Pat Montandon

patmontandon.com

Society queen, evil stepmother or both?: International Herald Tribune article about Dede Wilsey

David Foster Wallace

Dr. Lenore Terr

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