her map blanket<\/a>, with piles of red- and blue-labeled candy to mark off states.<\/p>\nMargie also served us up a very nice home made onion soup for dinner.<\/p>\n
When Ohio went with Obama, we broke out the champagne. There’s a nice irony there. We poured some for the three of us, adding a bit of mango nectar to Kitten’s (though she still didn’t like it).<\/p>\n
I stayed up through McCain’s concession speech (well said, and certainly better than the rude audience in Phoenix warrented), and through Obama’s victory speech.<\/p>\n
It’s hard to believe it’s over. It’s even harder to believe that My Guy won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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