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39: Shenandoah (Birch)
40: Shenandoah (Oak)
40a: Dime Novel (as my “ongoing” poetry jotbook)

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38: MN Blue
39: Shenandoah (Birch)

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37: Pitch Black
38: MN Blue

(Last of the original order from almost exactly three years ago).

Last, next. 36, 37. (These are the first two of the new-style Pitch Black)

Last, next.

35: Two Rivers
36: Pitch Black

Fun facts:

• This is the last Two Rivers, and the first redesigned Pitch Black.
• I received my three 3-packs of Two Rivers two years ago tomorrow.

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34: Chicago
35: Two Rivers

(Last of both.)

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33: Two Rivers
34: Chicago

Finishing the Two Rivers early: the staples, as always, were giving out not quite half way through.

Last, next. 32, 33. (Only one more Two Rivers after these two… Saving one of my favorites for last.)

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31: Chicago
32: Two Rivers

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30: Pitch Black
31: Chicago

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29: Snowblind
30: Pitch Black

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28: Two Rivers
29: Snowblind

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27: Pitch Black
28: Two Rivers

I voted! And, hey! I took some extra stickers for my dead friends. The dirty secret about dead Democrats voting? They are, of course, wasted votes: the dead always write in their own candidates. Kennedy, Carter, FDR, sometimes even Andrew Jackson (awkward!)… This year, some of the more favored names were “Jed Bartlet,” “Eleanor Roosevelt,” and “Paul Wellstone.” A few others were looking for “Hillary Rodham” and just gave up when they couldn’t find her. Ah well, what can you do? There’s no reasoning with the dead.

Someone else, on their otherwise blank ballot, wrote: “I have found a truly marvellous solution to this electoral math, but the margin of this absentee ballot is too narrow to contain it.” The dead can be so fucking insufferable.

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26: Chicago
27: Pitch Black

(Also pictured, a black and silver Zebra Sarasa.)

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25: MN Yellow
26: Chicago

(Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago)

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24: MN Red
25: MN Yellow

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23: Two Rivers
24: MN Red

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22–23: Two Rivers

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21: Pitch Black
22: Two Rivers

(The previous succession is missing:
20 Pitch Black to 21 Pitch Black)

First and last afternoons.

1 July 2011 at 1:30pm:

30 March 2016 at 2:35pm:

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19: Shenandoah (Oak)
20: Pitch Black

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18: Snowblind
19: Shenandoah (Oak)

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17: Shenandoah (Maple)
18: Snowblind

(Snowblind is only a day old, but I’ve already scuffed up the front cover, and bent the back cover. It is so much flimsier than the Shenandoahs!)

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16: Shenandoah (Birch)
17: Shenandoah (Maple)