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Dear Reader,
It was love at first sight. I knew I should walk on by, but sometimes when you see something, it calls out to you. Have you ever had that happen? I have. I very clearly heard "it" calling my name, "Suzanne, take me home, I'll look gorgeous in your hallway."
And "it" was right.
The light-yellow and lilac gingham-patterned hall runner does indeed look perfect sitting on top of my 1925 hardwood floor, but buying anything light-colored that you plan on walking on--I realize it's risky business.
Because this isn't my first time. Years ago, I bought two cream colored loveseats. Light and bright, they were the perfect addition to my living room. The loveseats did need extra attention, but I didn't mind the vacuuming and spot cleaning. It was manageable, until my mom and dad came to visit and they brought their dog.
After my parents left, I discovered a half-circle pee stain on the side of one of my love seats. (That's another column, for another day.) But the incident--and the expensive professional cleaning--did detour me from buying any more light colored furniture.
Until the light-yellow and lilac runner called out to me. It needed a home and I was the woman to rescue it. I love it, and I found the perfect place for it in the hallway in front of my bathroom. But instead of walking on the rug, like a normal person, I've noticed I've been stepping over top of it, which I realize is crazy.
I'm a bit of a strange bird anyway, so through the years I've had a lot of practice finding ways to justify "crazy" as really being normal and logical. My story this time...is telling myself that every time I wide-step (really wide-step), over top of the rug, I'm getting a real good stretch. One of those stretching exercises my doctor advised me to start doing. "Take a class," she said, "one that will make you stretch your body."
But why pay for exercise like normal people do? Now I have a pretty new rug and my own free stretch-class. I guess that little voice was really doing me a favor.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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WORTH KILLING FOR (Mystery) by Jane Haseldine
A crime reporter has no choice but to team up with her conman father to decipher whether a stranger, vowing he's the brother she lost in a child abduction case, is who he claims to be. Or is it a trap to ensure the many sins of her father are paid in full?
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