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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2935592, member: 10461&quot;]My gift is being shipped outside the country, so apologies in advance to the recipient if it should arrive in a slightly tardy manner.&nbsp; I <i>had</i> intended to launch it sooner, but that didn&#039;t end up happening.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of &quot;outside the country&quot;, lo and behold, look at what <i><b>arrived</b></i> in our mailbox while I was having my AM nap this morning (I work nights).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ladymarcovan placed this on my bedside table while I snoozed, so I opened up my eyes a few minutes ago and ... <i>there it was!</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]713766[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Whoa!&nbsp; </i>A bit of &quot;thunder from Down Under&quot;!&nbsp; Yee-haw!</p><p><br /></p><p>This one, it happens, had an even longer journey than the trek ahead of the package I just mailed a few hours earlier!&nbsp; All the way from the opposite side of the globe to me here in coastal Georgia!</p><p><br /></p><p>I did open the outer package to be sure this was indeed my Secret Saturnalia gift and not something else (I certainly wasn&#039;t expecting anything from Australia, though, so I had a hunch.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Inside was a smaller parcel cocooned in cardboard and duct tape.</p><p><br /></p><p>And&nbsp; a very nice letter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]713775[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]713776[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>WOW, thank you, [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>How exciting!</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Like you, I will probably be identified by my recipient since I had to put my name on the customs form of the one I just mailed out, though I did not put my username anywhere on or within the envelope, as you can see in my &quot;mailing&quot; pictures I posted from the post office earlier this morning.</p><p><br /></p><p>After reading your letter, I now find myself wishing I had done the same thing for <i>my</i> recipient, instead of merely jotting a short, relatively impersonal, and hastily-scrawled note.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something also gives me a hunch that after I open your innermost package, I&#039;m also going to wish I had &quot;stepped up my game&quot; a bit more for what I sent out.&nbsp; I can only hope my recipient likes it.&nbsp; He was previously unfamiliar to me before this.</p><p><br /></p><p>So ... as to what&#039;s inside that innermost package I got from [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER] ... what do y&#039;all suppose it was?</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps a small Vegemite tea sandwich made with some very dense and rigid crackers?</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin pouch made from wombat foreskin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, the <i>mystery</i>!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Did I restrain myself and refrain from opening It?</p><p><br /></p><p>If so, will I <i>continue</i> to exercise restraint?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Time will tell! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[Spoiler][ATTACH=full]713778[/ATTACH] [/spoiler][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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