On July 9, 1999 11:04 AM, Mary Dierickx [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:

> Dear Pinheads,
>
> Hi - I'm back in NYC after month on vacation in Tuscany.  We stayed in a
> converted 300-year-old farmhouse on a hilltop in the hills outside
Lucca.
>  I
> didn't visit Carrara, didn't bring a camera, but went to the beach,
drank
> a
> lot of Tuscan wine, and had a fine time.  I think I am at present
> psychologically strong enough to handle any replies to this missive.



I can tell even at this great distance that you have achieved heretofore
unknown dimensions of mellow in the languorous extreme.  Please, fashion
dreamy words into indolent being, cast them into the electronic ether, and
allow them to languidly wash over us with your torpid tales.
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