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Nice!

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👍🏻 Thanks. I appreciated the comments of our writing group before hand.

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You got it, Sharron: run free, live free. The first paragraph draws a beautiful picture.

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Thanks, KCK! I know nothing about horses, I admit. It was a challenge from Justin Deming that took me off into this unknown territory.

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Well, that hit me smack-dab in the sternum.

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I thought of Sue Cauhape the whole time I was working on this one. Sue Cauhape, who knows horses, while I, myself, have never patted or sat on one…

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🥺😲 Oh Sharron, that must be remedied. If you're ever in the neighborhood .......

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Hmmm. Let me think about it. No. ha ha ha

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Perfect!

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You are so nice, Barrie. I thank you so much for re-stacking! It is so helpful.

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Always a pleasure to share your words.

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None of us born to be corralled! Perfect, if words can be, last line. Your timing for each of your phrases is special. Like being a conscientious objector instead of fighting, just surreptitiously changing the way things are to make a little piece of this world a little more human.

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Thank you, Jillness

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A nice metaphor. Run free, wild spirit. But could you stop and get some milk, please?

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And a bag of Doritos.

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Yummy.

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Yay! Thank you.

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50 words of pure poetry here - I love this one Sharron!

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Thank you , Conor, and thanks to Justin for the prompt! Horses -- something I never thought would figure into one of my stories.

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Excellent! I Like it.

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🌿👍🏻

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I love this story. It's a 50-word gem.

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Yeeeow! Thanks Bill! 🩷

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Nor was I - I'm glad they are free, but can they fend for themselves?

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Don’t know anything about it. We will have to ask Sue Cauhape of Ring Around the Basin. She knows horses.

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"...within the folded and fractured hills." I can see them, Sharron. Well done.

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Thanks, my friend!

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I could feel the ground shake under the horses hooves.

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Thanks, Ron!👍🏻

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50 words of perfection! Beautiful, Sharron!

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Thank you, my hero. And thanks for the re-stack! It really helps.

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I feel that way about orcas too.

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Freedom!

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Oh, it was the perfect story already, and then BANG - the beyond-perfect last line!

Wonderful, Sharron. Such great writing. x

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