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Hanging Pictures Today February 5th 2021 With the Missus

Hanging pictures today February 5th, 2021 with the missus... (in an attempt to cover up (overlay) fruit fly waste byproduct) At four feet eleven (fifty nine inches), the spouse longitudinally challenged hence she browbeats her husband, (who only stands five feet ten inches) but boosted in height courtesy lightweight bench. He gingerly maneuvers selected picture, (i.e. wife artfully cut from magazine), where ceiling meets wall (right inside apartment door) as beloved (oompa loompa) sweetheart otherwise known as me said counterpart carefully scrutinizes positioned snapshot. "...More toward the right and smidgen lower down" impossible mission quite challenging, I feel her smile or frown, yours truly consigned to present plight since he pledged his troth - downtown Norristown, Pa (xxv plus years ago) knight in shining armor agreed to secure marriage license deed since unicellular seminal seed planted - while sowing oats we'd both threw caution to the wind (and nine months later after surrendering to call of the wild proud parents of beautiful child), she long since flew the coup exiled her father (me) and mother to empty nest syndrome initially riled with painstaking sadness. In retrospect methinks how role as dad, I blundered with countless faux pas - my bad to mismanage challenges - and exclaim Egad, albeit silently reflecting back many years of course now glad - both daughters overcame being mad toward him who helped beget while gamely gamboling, scampering, romping... with barenaked lady of course willing poet (thrusting shaky spear) at large also unclad (mine eventual permanent counterpart) bedded upon mattress pad. Even while solitary bachelorhood (aye attest said status earthlinked me by and by completing approximately three+ decades - whoa how time did/doth fly) one garden variety generic guy (who e're since being little boy felt extremely shy), locked a characteristic, he now doth decry cuz being socially withdrawn, (yea... think figurative fly on the wall, or wallflower mein kampf devoid of healthy development thus fashionably late socialization went awry particularly when learning contra dancing, although juvenile behavior exhibited plying gal inapropos became brazen and quickly learned not act slow, when asking pretty thing, this bozo genuflected and gesticulated... ofttimes quickly made to eat crow communicated with immediate revulsion, (no matter I imagined myself modest nonpareil beau) actually eventually met young lady, who took me as husband material "hugo git yarself a mate" - track played within mind (mine) lest celibate state worse than death - ya know?

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