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I had a very strange dream this morning. My sister Kathy and I were both visiting our parents at our childhood home in Wisconsin. She had just gotten divorced from Jeff and remarried someone called Larry, who wasn't there. She had not brought her kids Josh or Kara, but she had brought a different little girl, her youngest. Then I found a book on the floor about cheating in relationships, and my mother whispered a secret to me: " looks just like Larry" and we all knew Kathy had still been married to Jeff when the little girl was born. I felt completely shocked, my sister has always been the "good one", the devout Christian. Later my sister and I were folding laundry, and I asked her if it would be okay if I kept in touch with Jeff, the way my family is keeping in touch with Ray. She was horrified and demanded a promise that I would not try to contact him. He also had already remarried and gained primary custody of my niece and nephew, and I could not understand how Kathy could stand not to see them for so long.

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In reality, Kathy and Jeff are still married, and have only the two named children. I don't even know anyone named Larry. So where did ths dream come from?

When I got out to the parking lot two-three hours ago to go car-shopping, there was a note on the windshield: "Just a compliment...You are gorgeous." That made my day! I wish I knew who put it there, but it's almost more fun not knowing.
The fact that I got stopped for running a stop sign on my way home doesn't even cut into my cheerful mood, the more so because Mr. Policeman just looked at my license and said "I'm not going to give you a ticket, but I want you to turn around and go back and look at the intersection." So I did exactly that, he followed me to make sure, and off I drove home, in a different direction.
As for the car shopping, I test drove a Subaru Outback Sport and two different Saturn L-series, one with automatic and one with manual transmission. The automatic felt sluggish to me, but the manual was much more responsive. After six years driving a manual transmission car, I just don't like the way automatic feels. But manuals are getting harder and harder to find.