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Already know Gabriels a baddie coz he calls San Francisco Sanfran. Love these Jill!

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Hahahahha a sure sign. Thank you 😘

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Happy Belated Birthday, Jill! Someone told me they had a dream about me recently... that wasn't you, right? 🤪

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Oh thank you Mr Troy! I’m afraid not re the dream but dw, I’m sure someone out there has you in their dreams ❤️

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Good title for a book Other people’s dreams

Also, they make some sense: I think most of us don’t search for our own dreams but for some other one’s

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So true. Most of the trick is spotting whether you’re chasing your dream or someone else’s 🎯💯

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Happy birthday Jill!

I take the Jungian approach to most dreams. Sex is creative energy between you and your Animus or male counterpart. Depending on the vibe (forceful, fun, dangerous etc) it suggests where you are in that creative back and forth

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!!!!!

This is *incredible and absolutely spot-on, if recent dreams are anything to go by. 🎯 Absolutely love this comment, thanks Taegan.

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Totally relate to the hankering. And happy birthday! And I also didn’t realize this was a series and am now thrilled to get to start at the beginning. 🎉

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That hankering, she’s potent…. Hope you enjoy the earlier ones, lmk what you think (and thanks for the bday wishes, spent the day in my hammock which was all I wanted in the world) 😌 x

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Hah!

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Happy Birthday Jill!! Hope it is a great one and congrats on the new bike. I can see how the Notebooks help handle that rambling feeling.

I'm pretty sure sex dreams come from a Dirty BFG that goes around capturing naughty thoughts floating around and then blowing them into your brain whilst you asleep. Blame the DBFG. Oh that's fizztingler that one! ooh, this is a special Nobtombler, it be giving them the most freaky shameful dream.

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Brilliant 😅 Dirty BFG is up to some wiiiiild tricks 🤣

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Hahahaha. You sure know how to make being trapped in amber sound like fun.

And I can so relate:

“I wanted them all, didn’t even know what I wanted, just wanted to rub my face on them.”

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All depends who you're trapped in amber with 😏 (hawt country boys ftw)

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"The antithesis of a room of one’s own is the family home"...I felt this in my bones today.

Happy Birthday, and I think spiders are awesome little things 🕸

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Feeling it too, right there w ya 🤝✊ may you get some time and space 🙏

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Happy HAPPY birthday and happy new bike day. What did you settle on? I’m gently nudging JoJo towards a gravel bike to match mine (I went for a Scott Speedster, a balance between cool looks and affordability). Half of adventuring is craving the next one. We keep telling ourselves that our little French farm is ‘basecamp’ … it feels like a launch pad then, not a succession of awkward barns and slipped roofing tiles!

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Leaning towards a Trek road bike so I can go fast down hills 😅 but open to suggestions…. Thank you for the kind bday wishes (bike and birth) 🥰🙏

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My road bike is a rather ancient 10-year old Giant Defy. There’s SO much choice about. Our friends at NorthRoad Cycles do amazing bikes and they’d be my dream but … spending priorities and all that!

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Happy birthday. Two famous spiders in literature: Charlotte and Shelob. Wide range of traits to choose from there.

First time I noticed that the Notebooks is a series. So I get to go back and read from the beginning.

I'm such a homebody that I can't recall ever "hankering" to get away. Lots of missed adventures.

Use of the word hankering is making a big comeback according to google n-gram.

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I’m prob more Shelob than Charlotte… 😬 No time like the present for adventuring!! Hope you enjoy the earlier pieces, would love to hear what you think…

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Spiders rule! Happy Birthday Jill!

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Thanks Richard! 🥰🙏

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Happy birthday clever dark sarcastic (you don't strike me as a quite one, but if you say so), Jill. I love your writing!

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Thank you! And you’re right- I’m not quiet now but I was then x

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