Honestly, had no idea & I agree with you regarding the matter.
Gianni had sent it to my dear in response to an email regarding the Article from The Guardian …
So, all is corrected now.
Have a great trip to Manhattan !! Enjoy.
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Sharing another couple of vicarious vacation photos. They are on the Baja now, in a wine producing region, and had an amazing dinner at Fauna. You can see they’ve got a beautiful kitchen garden on the grounds. One of the appetizers were oysters, which DD2 said were delish. I’m thrilled she’s starting to like shellfish!
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So I’m having a beer (with an orange slice) on the deck. I took a sip while reading and felt a stinging pain in the kissing part of my lip. 
I pulled the glass back to find I tried drinking a bee. FML!!
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Owww!
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Ouch - sorry for the sting! Too weird, out of the blue yesterday, my BFF asked if I drink beer with orange! I have, but rarely drink beer. In any case, refreshing. If the sting swells, I’d anesthetize with straight gin, but that’s just me.
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Whoa! That is some terrible luck.
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It is!
My son was running with his mouth open, a bee went in and a stinger was lodged in his throat. School called, he let me extract it with a hemostat, he went back to school and I went back to work.
In retrospect OMG! We were all young.
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I agree!
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Yikes! There’s an expression “bee-stung lips” but I think it’s figurative rather than literal. Yesterday a bee flew into a glass of rosé I was drinking so I escaped your fate.
Hope all is well.
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Good prescription Dr. L. I’m all better now.
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What I think we need to know is it only the communists who are white. Or are the socialists, feminists and capitalist also monochrome groups.
And just where are we anarcho-syndicalists in all this?
Power to the people. Come the revolution, there will be accurate punctuation. Like it or not.
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Works for me!
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Some years ago we were having lunch at a huge outdoor event, seated at a table with strangers. A guy across from us took a bite from his sandwich, winced, reared back and calmly said he thought he’d been stung by a bee. Within seconds, he added that he was feeling odd. We watched him for maybe half a minute and put in a call for the village ambulance. By the time they got there, a couple of minutes at most, he was in distress. Paramedics administered anti-serum of sorts and took him to hospital. Not something to fool around with if you feel ODD after a bee sting.
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Twenty years ago today illiterates how terrorism knows no border and is the enemy of humanity.
As I age, sadly the list of things we shall never forget just keeps getting longer.
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Apart from Mrs H, I am the only person I know who did not closely follow the events of 20 years ago. We were in Spain, staying in a house with no TV. The day after, we walked into town in the evening to a restaurant and saw “something” on the screen of TV in the window of a small shop selling electrical equipment. At first, I think we assumed it was a movie but then realised a disaster or some sort had occured (an accident rather than a deliberate act). The following morning (now 2 days after the event) we again walked into town and spotted someone reading a Spanish newspaper the headline of which gave us some indication of what had actually occured. In truth, it has always meant that I’ve felt oddly disconnected to the events, in a way other folk I know, who followed event unfolding on TV, have not been.
It is, however, a day to remember those who have been victims of terrorism and the families they have left behind. I remember not only the victims of 9/11 but, also, the nearly 3200 Britons murdered by Irish terrorists and the 93 murdered by Islamic jihad terrorists, here in the UK.
FWIW, my morning newspaper carried a report suggesting the events of 20 years ago need to be better taught in British schools, otherwise it will leave our youngsters more open to being influenced by the internet conspiracy theorists. I think, almost the biggest tragedy of not including it somewhere in the syllabus, is that future generations of British youngsters might go looking for something that happened on 9th of November.
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I left Manhattan by bus this morning for a trip upstate, which gave me a chance to see the skyline and think about how it had looked 20 years ago. I watched the towers fall from the roof of my building on E. 22nd St. There are still reminders in many places, from big stuff like the memorial to the plaques you see in every firehouse. It feels very strange to me that 9/11 is history, now, for the people unaffected by it or too young to have any direct knowledge of it.
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