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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Cleora<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dilemma<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(The animal part was warm) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Try: The picture of the dolphin on the card felt warm and leathery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(It was Like the creature was alive.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Try: The image almost felt alive.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Delete the word (afterward) it isn’t necessary.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(As her friends) needs an apostrophe since it is a possessive noun, as does (her friends name.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(While They sat at the bar waiting for a table.) is a phrase, so doesn’t need a period. Also, the word (They) doesn’t need a capital letter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Try: While they waited for a table, they sat at the bar.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The sentence: (A woman with a service dog came up and sat on the stool on Cleatta’s left.) has too many unnecessary words.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Try: A woman with a service dog came and sat on the stool next to Cleatta. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There is a space between the period and the closing quotation mark at the end of the sentence: (“it was stolen.”)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Leonard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Each line is double spaced. I can’t tell if this is a mental musing or supposed to be a poem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marcia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Blink?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>No suggestions, but I doubt your former classmates will drag-out their own dirty linens. After all, they will be too busy marveling that the ones who hadn’t grown into their features and bodies in their teens, have turned into swans as mature adults. They will compare who looks great and who has sadly gone to seed. I suspect that you will come-out just fine in this superficial analysis. You will have two male escorts, when some will be widowed or divorced, have put on tons of weight or begun to look really wrinkled and saggy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Sally<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Concise, and honest. We aren’t grateful everyday, sometimes even sweet serene souls get frustrated by what is, instead of finding those nuggets of peace and contentment. You have had a rough year health and spiritwise. I think God can accept honesty. My mother always told us she was less likely to be angry with us five energetic children if we honestly admitted to our failings or mistakes than if we lied about them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Hugs to all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>DQN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>DeAnna Quietwater Noriega<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Cell: 573-544-3511<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Email: <a href="mailto:dqnoriega@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>dqnoriega@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Author of <i>Fifty Years of Walking with Friends<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>https://www.dldbooks.com/dqnoriega/</span></i><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>