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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving 2014
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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This is the thread for the giving of thanks not just to God but to those people and organizations that have influenced our lives for good whether momentarily or over the longer term.
All that we have comes from God, may we all be faithful in giving thanks.
-- WW
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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May we always be thankful for all those whom GOD surrounds us with. Those, who while not being our blood, are more than family in many ways. We thank those for the coming year who will help us get through.
God bless us, everyone.
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Starbug
Shipmate
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Thank You, Lord, for good friends. As a popular fridge magnet says, 'Friends are the family you make yourself'.
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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Cara
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I give thanks for a lovely Christmas season, which--so far-- has included the engagement, and very soon afterwards, the wedding, of one of my children! And much good time spent with all my nearest and dearest.
I feel very blessed.
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Pondering.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Thanks to the Shipmates. Your wit and inight, your kindness and comeradery have sustained me in ways you will never know.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
... your kindness and comeradery have sustained me in ways you will never know.
Isn't that what we're here for? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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I moved this week.
After far too long a period of instability, I've been able to move into an apartment. (Shared, but asking for more would be pushing it...)
My life is starting to turn around, and I'm grateful for everybody that helped make it possible.
![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Graven Image
Shipmate
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Just received the news that a young friend with stage 3B cancer has been negative for cancer in the last 2 tests. I can not begin to express the thankful joy I am feeling for him and all who love him.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Something is different on my "compline" (Mac) and I had problems about getting into my e-mail. I prayed all day and now God has got me onto the e-mails! Thank you, God. You are a loving one! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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London
Flickr fotos
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Thank God for the good health and happy, active life of my 89 year old father. May it long continue. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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ebeth
Shipmate
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Good news and good appointment with one of the docs today. It's been such an odyssey that I have to share the success. Maybe things are on the upswing.
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"To eat bread without hope is still, slowly to starve to death." --Pearl S. Buck
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Japes
Shipmate
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I am giving thanks for knowing the signs of drowning, and for the speed with which the lifeguards at the pool responded.
Today could've had a very different outcome otherwise.
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Blog may or may not be of any interest.
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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My son-in-law had his interview to get his permanent residency status today, and all went well and he was approved.
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
Trumpeting hope
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Yesterday was a bad day for my partner because of a crazy decision made by her manager that was really hurtful (and plain mean, I think).
In the evening, after mopping up buckets of tears, we were sitting reading and the phone rang. It was a lovely guy from the church we used to attend. He and his wife are people we have been acquainted with for years and its always a pleasant experience, but we hadn't seen him for at least 18 months.
He rang to tell us that our names had been mentioned in Sunday's sermon, in regard to how welcoming we had made the church choir, and how our attitude to inclusivity had made all the difference to the preacher. You could have knocked us over with a feather!
My thanks for people like Brian, who want to pass on good news.
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Hell is full of the talented and Heaven is full of the energetic. St Jane Frances de Chantal
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Ethne Alba
Shipmate
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After the lashing of rain and wind, grateful thanks for a moment of warm sunshine
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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My aunt who was in a coma, on life support and not expected to last through the night over a week ago has made a very rapid recovery and was released from hospital today. Praise God!
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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Starbug
Shipmate
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I gave a talk about my trade union work to one of our church clubs last night. I was extremely nervous, but prayed about it and it turned out wonderfully. I relaxed and enjoyed the whole thing. Thank You, Lord! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
[ 20. February 2014, 05:46: Message edited by: Starbug ]
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Another nephew!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Piglet
Islander
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Congratulations, Uncle Wodders!
I'm here to say that my job's been guaranteed until June, when another funding application is going in, and my boss is going to do everything she can to keep me on.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Ferijen
Shipmate
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It's been ten years since my first mini shipmeet.
Giving thanks for this place.
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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I am very thankful that Miss M has had ten days at home without a recurrence of the side effects of the second round of chemo. That put her back in hospital with a temperature of 41°C and pronounced heart arrhythmia.
[ 27. February 2014, 22:11: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
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Mad Cat
Shipmate
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Today I am grateful for the life of Joan, and all the people she made happy.
I'm thankful for Camp Sloane YMCA, which I suddenly missed massively this evening. My experience of working there was amazing, and helps me to be a better teacher now, even after all these years.
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Weird and sweary.
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Sipech
Shipmate
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Giving thanks for some people who changed their minds. My parents were looking to move home, but the couple they are buying off threatened to derail the whole chain, which would have made another couple (first time buyers) homeless.
Am grateful it all got sorted and the contract exchange took place last night.
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I try to be self-deprecating; I'm just not very good at it.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAlethiophile
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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Doctors are very happy with Miss M's response overall to the chemo since the beginning of they year. She is making progress. Chemo will continue for another four months continuously and then less often for several years. While numbers may be good, it is known that the extra sessions are needed to prevent relapse.
We are especially happy as the chemo induced diabetes and pancreatitis are fading as chemo type changes.
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Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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My daughter bought her first car!
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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A year or so ago I asked for prayers for a young couple who had just had a stillborn baby - yesterday the husband, a neighbour, stopped me to say that his wife had, just the previous day, been delivered of healthy, bouncy twin girls!
The size of his smile was amazing!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Raptor Eye
Shipmate
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For thanks to those who prayed for me.
Thanks and praise to you Lord for the embrace of the Holy Spirit, which has strengthened me; for the reminder that it's as important to care for our spiritual health as it is to care for our physical and mental health; and for the metaphorical touch of coal on my lips (which has the appearance of having physically had my lips burned!) and which has already helped me to say the right thing, and to refrain from saying the wrong thing.
[minor coding tweak - WW]
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Ethne Alba
Shipmate
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THANK YOU LORD that i can finally understand this pile of papers before me
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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My brother is coming home for a visit! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
We haven't seen him for fourteen years. Daughter-Unit and I were just speaking of him Tuesday, trying to remember how long it's been since we saw him. We figured twelve to thirteen years.
So today, he answered that question as he asked if it would be OK to come for about two weeks. Please!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Ethne Alba
Shipmate
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Out of the blue and after nearly four years without paid employment, the Least likely person at a place where I volunteer has offered specific help to get me back into paid work. (Quite a lot of specific help actually)
I am surprised/ happy/ grateful/ shocked/ humbled/ happy/ alarmed/ excited....and all at once. Thank you Lord.
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maleveque
Shipmate
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Middlemost Child returned from college Saturday night, safe and sound. She will be home for three months, working and doing a couple of online classes (this is a regular part of her college's program - students go and work every third term, and the school year is year-round).
- Anne L.
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Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
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Nicodemia
WYSIWYG
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Praise God that a close family member is settled in her new home after so many upsets and disappointments.
Thanks especially for a Shippie's prayers as well.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I have had a lovely letter from the schoolteacher who was the biggest influence on my fledgling Christian life. I give thanks for her regularly. However, she was evangelical and, I thought, disapproved of my steady progress towards liberalism. And so I thought she no longer wanted contact; it's been several years since we were last in contact. She said she was clearing out old paperwork and came across some old letters and wants to get back in touch.
Perhaps she's going to try to get me back on the path of righteousness!
I'm overjoyed to hear from her.
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tessaB
Shipmate
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Giving thanks for my mother's move into a retirement flat today. Four years after my father's death, she is finally in a place where she can relax and not have too many worries about the upkeep of a big house and garden. Thank You God for her lovely estate agent who even fixed her telly for her (yes, I know!)
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tessaB
eating chocolate to the glory of God
Holiday cottage near Rye
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nickel
Shipmate
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I have so much to be thankful for. Among the more surprising things is -- a new house! Dear husband and I had been looking to relocate to a town closer to family. Last September we came thiiiissss close to closing a deal on a unique home; heartbreak. But lo and behold, half a year later, it's ours!
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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Given how often I moan about and ask prayers for my work situation on the Ship, I should really also give praise when praise is due. Departmental shuffling meant that a few weeks ago I had a change of manager from Shite-Manager-2.0 to a new manager about whom there were promising signs from the off. A few weeks in, I continue to like my new manager's management style and consider her to be quite fab. Hooray!
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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On the evening of April 5-6 1969, I walked from my residence at University across the street to St Michael and All Angels Roman Catholic Church where, during the Easter Vigil, I was received into the Church.
45 years have passed, and at this point in time, it is a decision I have never regretted.
There have been bumpy times but now, in my increasing age, I feel that my ship has come into a safe harbour.
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Even more so than I was before
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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(((Uncle Pete)))
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Bene Gesserit
Shipmate
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Giving special thanks for the hard work, talent and dedication of choirs, Lay Clerks, organists & other church musicians - and for golden-voiced clergy!!
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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
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MrsBeaky
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Giving thanks for our suddenly improved (long may it continue!) internet connection which has meant we have been able to Skype family and friends just as I was feeling horrendously homesick and cut off.
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"It is better to be kind than right."
http://davidandlizacooke.wordpress.com
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Delighted that we have been able to book a long planned holiday in Victoria BC for the hotel and time that we wanted.
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I had a pretty spectacular failure of my gas grill a few days ago. Many thanks to God for the thing not exploding, and that the fire generated did not ignite the rapidly escaping propane.
Also, very grateful for the firemen who took care of the situation and very emphatically told me I had handled the situation correctly.
I still have a house!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Thanks be to God for all the people who put my insides back where they ought to be, and that I am going HOME!
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Yay, Lamb Chopped!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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