So I just waited until I was done working, and then I said, 'Things are going to be a little bit different.

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In the interest of full disclosure, I did not pay for the bottle I am about to lovingly describe, but then again, it is not yet for sale, and if I waited it would be too late to tell you about it because it would no longer exist.

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Clea and I waited an appropriate interval, then turned and clung to each other in a kind of rapture.

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It was slow at first I took a month to decide what I wanted to write about and what the URL would be, then waited months after that before publishing my first post.

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She was asking me because, twice already, I too had waited for my husband to come home from a war first Afghanistan, then Iraq.

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