Encounters on the Road: one day a teenager asked Peony if she had a cigarette (she refrained from giving him a lecture on the evils of smoking--too time consuming) and if she had a gun(!) under her rain cloak. When she showed him my water bottle, he giggled and said he was only joking. Another day, a group of girls stopped her and asked if she would stand in front of the Westford firestation and sing the national anthem with them, as finding a "stranger" was an item on their scavenger hunt list! Peony is trying to get her 8th cousin once removed, Pearl Millbanks from Waymeet, to join the Walk. Pearl has one leg a bit shorter than the other and is subject to muscle strain--though she knows regular exercise would be helpful! She and Peony used to do a 20 mile charity walk every May, which got them both into the exercise mode, but they got out of the habit when Peony's work weekend schedule started interfering. Age, weight gain, and laziness had NOTHING to do with it...
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"And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water."
-The Return of the King
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