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Gratitude For Running Water On Tap

Gratitude for running water on tap... and heat flowing with a snap After shaving and showering, yours truly feels winsome though morose seeing unwanted adipose "love handles" inflating mine abdomen and tum unanimously decided courtesy quorum losing washboard stomach finds me uncomfortably numb, which middle age paunch could never earn plaudits from Heidi Klum, no matter I would prefer thine homebody missus considerably more ho hum. The spate of power outages (particularly December 24th, 2022 arctic bomb bomb cyclone affecting a broad swath of United States electricity grid) found yours truly and spouse huddled under layers of blankets clicking, doodling, fiddling... with SAMSUNG Galaxy A02s - SafeLink cell phone in an effort to thwart bone chilling debacle. Though shucking off clothes when mine dysmorphic body froze Old man winter's wrath did impose after PECO (Philadelphia Electric Company) technicians braved near absolute zero lows (approximate temperature including wind chill factor) donned in countless layers of under and overclothes three cheers of hooray rose once warm air gushed thru vent, now greater awareness undergoes transformation of appreciation translates into letters xo's whereby X represents a kiss, (preferably to female crew member) while the O represents a hug. This most likely occurred because X stylized representation vaguely shows two mouths kissing, whereas the O looks like two pairs of arms connecting for a hug. Lots of smooching going around the webbed wide world cuz a little more than twelve hours ago the stroke of midnight heralded two thousand twenty three, where throngs of people covered every square inch of ground far as the eye could see encompassing Times Square and adjacent neighborhoods yours truly viewed on flat screen television far from the madding crowd I experience agoraphobia, thus spend time within four walls of apartment unit b44 one solitudinarian whiling away days of his life as the world turns daylight revealing the clear horizon into the edge of night. Unsure how reading and writing allow, enable, and provide personal adequate contentment versus majority of individuals, whose bucket lists full to the brim with jet setting across the globe many zipping, questing, hopscotching, et cetera preferring to access experiential dynamic random pursuits becoming gifted with enrollment into frequent flyer program as incentive program operated by an airline to reward customers for their continued loyalty. Our hypothetical earthy traveler earns free miles for the miles they fly on a particular airline while embarking on near impossible missions sojourners for seeking truth, goodness and beauty.

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