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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2023-12-08 03:30 am

I feel it every time I walk through you

For the first night of Hanukkah, [personal profile] rushthatspeaks and I drove eleven hours from Boston to the D.C. metro area. We ate the sandwiches we had packed at a rest stop in Connecticut, discovered Kate Pierson's "Throw Down the Roses" (2015) on WVPH in New Jersey, and were directed by the GPS to drive three times across the bridge that used to be the Tappan Zee. My godchild ran out to meet us carrying in their arms a cat whom I had met only through the talkie window and accompanied by their boyfriend likewise. Two and a half years on from the last time I saw them, they are now an inch taller than I am and their hair is spectacularly toned violet through midnight blue. We had missed the timing on latkes, but had dinner of Peruvian chicken and plantains from Crisp & Juicy and talked for hours until everyone else peeled off for bed and we rewatched the pilot of Twin Peaks (1990–91). The Merritt Parkway snowed on us. [personal profile] spatch wrote me that he and the cats lit the first night's candle for peace.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2023-12-08 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
A freylichen Chanukah to you and yours!
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2023-12-08 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Hanukkah! Godchild's hair sounds amazing, and running out to meet you with cat in arms shows they are a person of wisdom and courtesy (and have a very co-operative cat).
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[personal profile] selkie 2023-12-08 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
How was the pilot?
I came down to shove the croissants in the oven before Child left for school and it was very good to know you and Rush are here.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2023-12-08 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking at the photos at Crisp and Juicy and yearning for the yuca, yum. Will there be the possibility of latkes tomorrow? Also: hurray for godchild's beautifully color-gradation hair!
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux 2023-12-08 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Hanukkah!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2023-12-09 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Hanukkah!
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[personal profile] pameladean 2023-12-09 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Hanukkah!

Boyfriend? An inch taller? Didn't you use to carry them around? I remember photos! I know this is just life, but it really surprises me every time.

I love that you are able to have this visit and these adventures.

P.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2023-12-09 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cross the great bridge three times" sounds like occult advice, particularly if done while engaged in some other significant activity (playing a song on a loop, for example)....
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[personal profile] oracne 2023-12-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like a lovely trip!