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<DIV>2,689.07 miles away!</DIV>
<DIV>Watch for a pkg.with a label of a Basset with PINK roses</DIV>
<DIV>The present if for you a clue</DIV>
<DIV>This ones for you and not for sniffy noses</DIV>
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<DIV>You live upstate near a big big lake</DIV>
<DIV>And here we live on the Puget Sound near Totem Lake</DIV>
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<DIV>We live in the woods 3 hours time behind you</DIV>
<DIV>40 hours and 55 minutes driving it would take to drive to you</DIV>
<DIV>We are in a "Coffee Country" </DIV>
<DIV>We were here long before "Starbucks"</DIV>
<DIV>Ever burned a bean!</DIV>
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<DIV>Bassets climb and hike up our Mountains tall and serene</DIV>
<DIV>Just last Wed. we went on a Waddle with a Under the Sea theme</DIV>
<DIV>Bassets won first prize in the town of Brier's "Porch Light
Parade"</DIV>
<DIV>My Henry Dear Henry of Calendar Fame made people laugh</DIV>
<DIV>Dressed as an Octopus he did careen</DIV>
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<DIV>Enough! Stop! This is Killing me!</DIV>
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<DIV>Have you guessed by now ?</DIV>
<DIV>Love and Woofin frum yur furrendly SP poet sshmoooh-et!</DIV>
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