Vacationing in the Aurora Islands...
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Any difficulties shipping the piano?
ReplyDeleteI hope not. How is it you know I always bring a piano when I travel, even though I don't play it or any other musical instrument?
ReplyDeleteEverybody knows you always take a piano with you when you travel. Especially, I would think, to such a place as the Aurora Islands--for god's sake!
ReplyDeleteEverybody knows?!? I need to start reading my own press clippings. Or at least hire someone to read my press clippings for me.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I bring it is in case I need to drop something incongrous on someone's head.
Everyone also knows that the Aurora Islands is a metaphor, and that the trip you are taking is, shall we say, pure speculation. The most difficult country of all . . .
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