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[never-afters]

[a-d-nox]

can you list any of the aspects in synastry or composite charts (if possible) where it indicates who breaks up with the other first ? for example, i just read a post saying more often than not, in venus conjuct pluto aspect- the pluto breaks up with venus first.

what causes break-up/rejection in synastry and composite

i wouldn't count on that always being the case, sounds like someone is justifying their specific situation because conjuncts are atypical in nature - they often don't have predictable results. some people say that they promote positivity (for example, venus person is enamored by pluto person and pluto person is obsessed with venus person like the twisted book series that went viral on tiktok) and some say that nothing good comes from them (like whichever post the example is from in the ask)...

i'm going to work off of what i already have posted (no asteroids discussed after this post will be included or added after the fact). finally, i would like to state that NO TWO CHARTS ARE THE SAME. what i am about to list out does not mean you will for sure need these exact things (or all of these things) to be shy, nervous, and/or anxious around one another. if you don't understand my thought process, feel free to comment with questions!

8h/12h saturn

often the ending of this relationship is not pretty and involves a long-term coupling falling out of love with one another.

8h uranus

uranus person likely feels that the house person is too clingy for them and will be the first to pull away.

12h aries (1°, 13°, 25°) and/or mars

tends to indicate an ugly split.

12h capricorn (10°, 22°)

tends to indicate a harsh breakup/rejection from the house person which causes the saturn person to fall into a despair. this connection is often of a long-term variety.

12h aquarius (11°, 23°)

this might end with one of the partners in the connection asking for an open relationship, cheating on their partner, and/or ghosting the other partner.

sun negatively aspecting mars

sun person denies mars person. sun person tends to not like the mars person's energy and how passionate they are - they tend to not feel as deeply as the mars person.

mars negatively aspecting saturn

saturn person rejects mars person. usually the saturn person doesn't see the mars person as a good fit for them long-term - it tend to have to do with how clingy/possessive the mars person is. often the saturn person doesn't think that the mars person is worth fighting with, while the mars person sees the saturn person as someone worth fighting for.

mars negatively aspecting uranus

uranus person rejects mars person. the mars person often doesn't see this coming as an uranus person in this connection is quick to ghost/disappear from the mars person's life. the mars person tend to lack closure in the connection.

1h salome (562)

in oscar wilde's play salome, she is enticed by jokanaan but still wants him dead, and the play ends up with them both dead but him by salome's order.

apollo (1862) negatively aspecting kassandra (114)

kassandra person may seem interested at first but ends up just using the apollo person only to get ahead then rejects the apollo person.

medusa (149) negatively aspecting poseidon (4341 / h47)

poseidon person aggressively pursues medusa person but medusa person wants nothing to do with poseidon person

narcissus (37117) negatively aspecting echo (60)

echo might adore narcissus person, but narcissus person may either just enjoy that echo person likes them or they might decide they are too good for echo person.

rhea (577) negatively aspecting kronos (h43)

rhea person tend to be unhappy in the connection and plots against the kronos person.

zeus (h42 / 5731) negatively aspecting hera (103) and/or juno (3) negatively aspecting jupiter

typically, the hera/juno is hurt by the zeus/jupiter person because hera/juno person learns that they are being cheated on. oftentimes, this leads to a breakup. however, if there is a hera/juno prominent person in the connection, the relationship tends to continue but at the expense of the loyal (and unhappy) hera/juno person.

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[mariacallous]

A well-known Georgian transgender model has been murdered, local officials said, a day after the government passed legislation that will impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ+ rights in the country.

Georgia’s interior ministry said Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was believed to have been stabbed to death in her apartment in suburban Tbilisi on Wednesday.

Georgian media later reported that a man had been arrested in connection with the crime.

Abramidze was one of the country’s first openly trans public figures. Her death follows controversial legislation on “family values and the protection of minors” that will allow officials to outlaw Pride events and censor films and books.

The law, which was approved by the Georgian parliament on Tuesday in its third and final reading, includes bans on same-sex marriages and gender-affirming treatments. It is expected to be another point of contention between Georgia and the EU as the country seeks to join the bloc.

Critics argue that the bill, initially introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party in the summer, mirrors laws enacted in neighbouring Russia, where authorities have implemented a series of repressive anti-LGBTQ+ measures over the past decade.

Although the motive behind Abramidze’s murder remains unclear, her death was swiftly cast by Georgian civil society as part of a state campaign against minorities in the country.

Under the Georgian Dream party, which has taken an increasingly anti-liberal stance, the country has seen a rise in violence against LGBTQ+ people.

Last year, hundreds of opponents of gay rights stormed an LGBTQ+ festival in Tbilisi, forcing the event to be cancelled. This year, tens of thousands of people marched in the capital to promote “traditional family values” at an event attended by the ruling party amd the deeply conservative and influential Orthodox church.

“There is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,” the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder.

“It has been almost a year that the Georgian Dream government has been aggressively using homo/bi/transphobic language and cultivating it with mass propaganda means,” it added.

On Wednesday, Josep Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, called on the Georgian government to withdraw the “family values” law, warning it would harm Georgia’s chances of joining the bloc. The legislation would “increase discrimination & stigmatisation”, he said on X.

After Abramidze’s death, Michael Roth, the Social Democratic party chair of the Bundestag foreign affairs committee in Germany, echoed that call. “Those who sow hatred will reap violence. Kesaria Abramidze was killed just one day after the Georgian parliament passed the anti-LGBTI law,” Roth wrote on X.

The introduction of the law comes just five weeks before parliamentary elections that many see as a litmus test of whether Georgia, once one of the most pro-western former Soviet states, will now drift towards Russia.

The country’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, whose functions are mostly ceremonial, is expected to veto the law before it comes into effect. However, Georgian Dream and its allies have enough seats in parliament to override her veto.

Earlier this year, the Georgian Dream also pushed through the divisive “foreign influence” law, which western critics argue is authoritarian and Russian-inspired, and has derailed the country’s EU aspirations.

Meanwhile, tributes have started to pour in for Abramidze, who represented Georgia at Miss Trans Star International in 2018 and had more than 500,000 followers on Instagram.

“Kesaria was iconic! Provocative, wise, incredibly brave! A trailblazer for Georgia’s trans rights,” Maia Otarashvili, a Georgian political scientist, wrote on X.

Zourabichvili said the murder should be a “wake-up call” for Georgian society.

“A terrible murder! The death of this beautiful young woman … should not be in vain!” the president wrote on Facebook.

[cursedbyastro]

ASTEROIDS RELATED TO ATTRACTIVENESS from (post here!) ✿

ASC - MC, sun, moon, venus, mars or jupiter conjunction, trine and sextile (0-2 orb)

*added by me* Adonis (2101) — magnetic, charismatic beauty (sextile moon 1º)

Aglaja (47) — Splendor

Alkmene (82) — Faithfulness, Intelligence

*added by me* Apollo (1862) — attraction, beauty (sextile mars 2º, trine MC 2º)

Aphrodite (1388) — Sexual Attractiveness (honorable mention conjunct mercury 3°)

*added by me* Bathseba (592) — lusted after beauty (honorable mention conjunct merucry 3°)

Bella (695) — Beautiful Woman

Candy (3015) — Candy Girl (sextile Sun at 1º)

Casanova (7328) — Charm

Chariklo (10199) — Sensitive

Charis (627) — Charisma

*added by me* Erato (62) — sensual, lovely beauty (trine MC 0º)

Eva (164) — Femininity

Fay (4820) — Ethereal Beauty (trine ASC 0º)

Flora (8) — Ethereal, Fairy Beauty

Freia (76) — Beauty, Fertility (sextile moon 0º)

Glo (3267) — Shine and Glow (sextile moon 0º)

*added by me* Godiva (3018) — untainted, pure beauty (conjunct moon 1º)

*added by me* Helena (101) — The Most Beautiful (conjunct ASC 1°)

Hera (103) — Sexual Attractiveness (sextile Jupiter 2°)

Kallisto (204) — The Most Beautiful (sextile Moon 0º, honorable mention conjunct Saturn at 0º)

Kleopatra (216) — Strength, Authority (trine Moon at 0º)

Lilith (1181) — The Dark Side of Sexuality (trine Moon at 0º)

Lotis (429) — Pure Beauty (trine ASC 2°)

Medusa (149) — Enviable Beauty (trine ASC at 2°)

Nadherna (5089) — Gorgeous (sextile Sun at 2°)

Nefertiti (3199) — Graceful

Narcissus (37117) — Vanity and Attractiveness

Nymphe (875) — Ageless, Natural Beauty

Peitho (118) — The Goddess of Persuasion (trine MC at 1º)

Persephone (399) — Queen of the Underworld (trine ASC °2)

Psyche (16) — Enviable Beauty (conjunct Mars 2º)

Ptah (5011) — Magical Beauty (conjunct Mars 0º, conjunct Venus at 2º)

Queen (5457) — Elegant, Strength, Powerful

Salome (562) — Seductive, Fatal Beauty (sextile Moon at 0º)

Sappho (80) — Bisexual Energy (sextile Sun 2°)

Sassi (7500) — Sassy Girl (sextile Venus 1º, sextile Mars º0)

Sirene (1009) — Dangerous, Femme Fatale (trine ASC 2°)

Shigemi (7597) — Luxuriant Beauty (sextile Jupiter 1º)

Zerlina (531) — Leading Energy

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day

Saint James the Greater

Died 44 AD

Feast day: July 25

Patron of veterinarians,

equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists

He was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus, the son of Zebedee & Salome & brother of John the Apostle, called the “sons of thunder”.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #29 -May 1978-

Conan's Ladies

Belit by Bruce Patterson & Dick Giordano

Yasmina by Bruce Patterson & Mike Nasser

Valeria by Bruce Patterson & Russ Heath

The Frost Giants Daughter by Bruce Patterson

Salome by Bruce Patterson & Ralph Reese

Red Sonja by Bruce Patterson & Neal Adams

ad art by David Wenzel & Duffy Vohtand

[mossi-dreams]

christmas wishes.

The chill of December air is bitter and biting, even as far down south as Georgia. It’s Christmas Eve, and the city was bustling. Even in the corner of downtown that was tucked away from the ‘prettier’ parts of the city. 

Just outside of the local homeless shelter, in what could only be considered a ‘back porch’ sort of area, a man sat on the back steps, an overgrown ginger buzz cut accompanied by a similarly overgrown beard. His eyes scanned about, cold, calculating, he was watching, waiting for something… or, someone. 

A few moments later, a figure appeared, bounding out from some back alley and narrowly avoided slipping on a patch of ice. A younger woman in her late 20’s with dirty blonde hair from a not-so-great dye job that was hastily tied back, her natural blonde roots peeking through a muddy brownish-blonde. She carried two packs of cigarettes and a weary smile. 

“Got lucky, these were the last two.” The woman commented as she tossed a pack to the man, who caught it wordlessly, his eyes trained on her as she walked up the steps and sat down beside him, opening her pack and pulling out two cigarettes and handing one to him. 

It was a tradition, she’d never allow him to even open his pack before she shared the first of hers. The man grunted, and pulled out a windproof lighter from his worn overcoat, lighting the cigarette between the woman’s lips before lighting his own, and stuffing the little silver lighter back into his pocket. A comfortable silence fell over the pair for a few minutes, the man staring blankly ahead while the woman was looking at the sky. 

“You think it’ll snow?” The woman asked finally. 

“Maybe, dunno.” The man replied, shaking his head as he blew out a plume of smoke, amplified by the steam of his breath in the cold air. 

“I hope it’ll snow. Would make for a nice Christmas.” She replied, and the man grunted. 

“Hard to imagine anything making for a ‘nice’ Christmas.” He added, and the woman snorted, rolling her eyes at him. 

“You are no fun sometimes.” She sighed, taking another long drag from her cigarette, then nudged him with her shoulder. “What are you wanting for Christmas, hm?” 

“Some peace and quiet.” 

“Oh-” 

She fell quiet, taking a long breath before blowing out the smoke into a thin stream in the air. The moment lasted maybe two, three seconds before he sighed. 

“Don’t mean you, obviously.” He corrected, and she cocked an eyebrow. 

“Like I don’t talk your ear off?” She questioned. 

“You do.” He shrugged. “But you’re tolerable.” 

The woman gasped, delighted. 

“You think I’m tolerable?” She couldn’t help the shit eating grin that was spreading on her face. The man shot her a glare. 

“Don’t push it, Salome.” He grumbled once more, then shook his head. The woman, Salome, snorted. 

“Aw c’mon, Jacob. That’s like, the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me!” She mused, nudging him once again, this time with her elbow. The man, Jacob, groaned, and rolled his eyes. 

“That’s pathetic, really.” He said, and she snorted again, but added no comment this time, only a shrug. 

Silence fell once more, hanging around a few minutes longer, but Salome seemed to hate silence, and she spoke again. 

“Hey Jacob?” 

The man sighed. 

“Yeah, Salome.” 

“Do you have any Christmas traditions?” She turned to look at him, propping her elbows on her knees. Jacob glanced at her, his expression unreadable before he glanced away, contemplative. It was quiet again before he replied. 

“...No.” He said, and stuck his cigarette in his mouth to hide the grimace that was spreading. Salome's brow furrowed, but she didn't push. She knew better than to do that. In her mind, it was easier to describe making any sort of progress with Jacob was similar to getting a stray cat to trust you. She was persistent nonetheless, she had been for months now, and so far it was working in her favor. 

After another long beat of silence, she broke it once more. 

“I make a Christmas wish.” She blurted, and he panned to look at her, raising an eyebrow. 

“A what?” 

“A Christmas wish!” She repeated with a smile as she looked at him. “Every Christmas Eve, I think real hard, and then make a wish for the coming year.” She said with an all-too-proud grin, and he huffed. 

“Why not make it on New Year’s Eve, like a normal person?” Any insult in his tone deflected off of her as Salome shrugged. 

“Because I hate New Year’s. It’s loud and stupid.” She said, then stared him down. “Don’t say it.” It’s a threat, and he let out something similar to a chortle, lifting his free hand in defense. After they both calmed, he grunted, as if he was about to regret asking. 

“What’d you wish for this year?” He asked, entertaining her ‘tradition’. Salome hummed, taking a long drag on her cigarette before sighing out the smoke. 

“I dunno yet.” She said, “I haven’t thought of anything good this year.” She shook her head, and ended up shivering as a cold breeze blew through. 

“That so?” Jacob hummed, “Do these things usually come true for you?” He glanced at her, and she shrugged. 

“I mean, most years yeah. Like, the year before last I wished to travel, and I ended up in plenty of new places. And last year, I wished for new friends, and here you are!” She grinned, and he scoffed, rolling his eyes. 

“I’m not your friend.” He grumbled, and it was her turn to scoff. 

“Like hell you aren’t!” She shifted on the porch step to face him better. “I might not be your friend, but you’re my friend. It’s a weird two way street.” She said

 “Besides, if we weren’t friends would you have given me this to wear?” Salome questioned as she tugged on the grey sweatshirt with big black letters that spelled ‘ARMY’ across the chest she was wearing beneath her coat. Jacob rolled his eyes. 

“I want that back at some point.” He said, and when she moved to start taking off her coat, he scoffed. “I didn’t mean right now, Jesus. Don't need you freezing your ass off.” 

“See? Friends.” Salome grinned as she tugged her outer coat back on, and he groaned, rolling his eyes, mumbling a ‘whatever’ beneath his breath. 

And for the millionth time, it fell silent once more. This time, the silence dragged on for much longer, Salome in deep thought while Jacob was more than happy to absorb the quiet outside the sounds of the city, and he, too, started to think a little. And with a sharp breath, he spoke.

“... I used to spend Christmases with my brothers… before we were separated, ‘course.” He said, finally, staring straight ahead as he said it. He figured he could give just a little, in the spirit of the season or whatever lame excuse she’d pin onto his sudden generosity when it came to sharing more about himself. Salome looked to him, and her expression softened some. 

“Do you miss them?” She asked, carefully, like she were treading on thin ice. Jacob hummed, and nodded, blowing out a cloud of smoke. 

“Yeah… I do.” He replied, voice hardly above a mumble. Salome thought for a moment, then nodded to herself. She thought for a good, long minute before an idea struck her, and she perked up.

“That’s it, then!” She said, “I know what I’ll wish for.” 

He looked at her, and frowned. “What are you talking about?” He questioned with the world's most unamused expression, and she grinned. 

“For my wish!” She practically chirped it out as she stamped out the last bit of her cigarette onto the concrete step. “This year, my wish is for you to get to see your brothers again in the coming year… if that's okay?” The last part came out a little more tentative than she desired, but it was too late to take it back.

Jacob nearly laughed, and finished off his own cigarette as he shook his head. 

“You’re crazy.” He sighed. “You’re not gonna wish on yourself?” Salome shook her head in turn. 

“Nah, guess I don’t need the wish that bad this year.” She shrugged. He paused for a minute, as if thinking her offer through before sighing once more, and rolling his eyes in pure defeat. 

“Sure, what the hell.” He conceded, and she smiled, reveling silently in this personal victory for herself. 

“Then it’s settled. I’ve made my wish for the year, and you are gonna see your brothers again.” She declared as she stood. Jacob merely sighed and rolled his eyes at her once again before standing, and following her inside and out of the cold.

And for the first time in a long time, Salome was really hoping this wish would come true, and not for her sake. 

She only found out the success of her wish two weeks into January, when she woke up, and Jacob was gone, and the only thing he left behind was a note written out on a piece of notebook paper, folded and tucked hastily into her pillow. And after some courage and a good bout of crying over seemingly losing her only friend in this place, she finally opened the note to read it. 

‘ Salome, 

Thanks for the wish. Came true quicker than you were probably expecting. They came to see me, and to get me out of here. Must be magic or something. 

Don’t worry about the sweatshirt, maybe if we see each other again some time, you can give it back then… just wash it between now and then, okay? 

Take care of yourself.

Jacob’

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 13

354 AD – Early Christian writer St. Augustine was born on this date (d.430) Following the example of St. Paul, Augustine set the standard for confessional literature that was to flourish in the centuries that followed. The pattern, of course, is a detailed listing of one's sins, followed by a narration of some event or events that made one long for salvation, and then an enunciation of the pains and joys of penance with the hope of future redemption.

Augustine confessed not only to having fathered a son, but to friendship that was classically homoerotic. When he was a young man, his closest friend died and Augustine contemplated joining him in death. "I felt that his soul and mine were `one soul in two bodies'; and therefore life was to me horrible because I hated to live as half of a life; and therefore perhaps I feared to die, lest he should wholly die whom I loved so greatly. My longing eyes sought him everywhere." Augustine, of course, cast off all sins of the flesh and becoming one of the great founders of Christian doctrine, admonished us all to do the same.

1759 – In the Netherlands, minister Andreas Klink is banished for life for having committed sodomy. He defends his attractions as natural.

1879 – Marcus Behmer (d.1958) was a German writer and book illustrator, graphic designer and painter.

Marcus Behmer was a son of the painter Hermann Behmer. His uncle Rudolf Behmer, known as a breeder of Merino sheep - was the twin brother of his father. His brother Joachim Behmer was also active as an artist.

His artistic beginnings came with his first major success with the illustrations for Wilde's Salome in 1903. The early works show the influence of the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley.

On 1 October 1903 Behmer entered military service, was appointed a corporal in 1904 and promoted in 1907 to sergeant. From 1914 he participated in the First World War (in Flanders and in Poland). In the summer of 1917 he fell ill "after an operation in the field" and was six weeks in the military hospital of Jarny . During his time in the army, many so-called "comrades' portraits" emerged, usually reduced, although finely crafted profile views of young soldiers

From 1902 Behmer produced illustrations for books, designed initials and writings, and was responsible for carefully planned publishing facilities. He worked for the Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler and illustrated numerous articles for the monthly magazine "The Island."

Behmer had been since 1903 a member of the first homosexual organization in the world in Berlin. Because of his homosexuality, Behmer was sentenced in April 1937 by a court in Konstanz to imprisonment of two years. At times he was given the opportunity to work as an artist in prison. The works produced in this period are mostly calligraphic tablets with Greek text (prayers and Bible quotes), and drawings full of bitterness and irony.

1950 – Charles Kaiser is an American author, journalist and academic administrator. In 2018 he was named Acting Director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College. He is also a nonfiction book critic for The Guardian (US).

His book about one family in the French Resistance, The Cost of Courage (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor, among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015). In 2016 it was published in France by Seuil as Le Prix du Courage.

His blog about the media, Full Court Press, originated on the website of Radar Magazine in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the Columbia Journalism Review and the Sidney Hillman Foundation until the spring of 2011.

The son of a diplomat, Philip Mayer Kaiser, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Albany, New York, Dakar, Senegal, London, England and Windsor, Connecticut. He has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many years.

He is the author of The Cost of Courage, 1968 In America, and The Gay Metropolis. The Gay Metropolis was a Lambda Literary Award winner, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He was a guest on the Colbert Report, where he discussed a new edition of The Gay Metropolis. He wrote the afterword for a 2012 edition of Merle Miller's landmark work, On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual. That afterword was excerpted on the website of the New York Review of Books. In 2015 he was inducted into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame.

1955 – Caryn Elaine Johnson, best known as Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host. She is a strong supporter of the LGBT community.

On April 1, 2010, Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community. The campaign is to bring straight people to ally with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community. Other names included in the campaign include Jason Mraz, Elton John, Judith Light, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, Sharon Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne.

Goldberg's high-profile support for LGBT rights and AIDS activism dates back to the 1987 March on Washington, where she was one of few celebrities participating.

1969 – Today is the birthday of bi-sexual Scottish actor Gerard Butler. He is best known for his portrayal of King Leonidas in the intensely homoerotic film about the Spartans, 300. He also portrayed the Phantom in the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. He is slated to portray the iconic Scottish poet Robert Burns in an upcoming biopic.

In the gossip mags, there have been numerous stories of his romantic involvements - including several of romantic and/or sexual involvements with other male stars.

In a 2004 Movieline interview he said:

"I talk about my sexuality, but it's always glossed over. People seem to shy away from the issue. Whenever it is discussed, it's distended and exaggerated. Gerard Butler is Gay. No I'm not. I don't know myself what I am so it can be bewildering to see that being plugged. I have been in relationships with women. And men. That doesn't make me Gay. That doesn't make me straight. It's hard enough to go through these things in my mind without being scrutinised about it so there are times when you want to close the door and say my sexuality is my own personal business."

1999 – Josh Cavallo is an Australian professional association footballer who plays as a left back and central midfielder for Adelaide United. Cavallo has represented the Australian under-20 national team.

Cavallo was born in Bentleigh East, Victoria.

Cavallo represented both Melbourne Victory FC Youth and Melbourne City FC Youth. Western United. On 15 April 2019, Melbourne City announced that Cavallo would leave the club at the expiration of his contract at the end of the 2018–19 season.

On 24 June 2019, new A-League side Western United announced that Cavallo would join the club ahead of its inaugural season. He made his debut on 3 January 2020 in a 3–2 loss at his previous club. On as a 71st-minute substitute for Apostolos Stamatelopoulos, he earned a penalty when fouled by goalkeeper Dean Bouzanis, which was converted by Besart Berisha. Western United announced that Cavallo was leaving the club on 10 February 2021.

On 18 February 2021, Cavallo signed a short-term contract to play for Adelaide United. After a successful stint in the 2020–21 A-League, he signed a two-year contract extension on 11 May. He was rewarded with Adelaide United's A-League Rising Star award after a successful 2020–21 campaign, in which he started 15 games and made 18 appearances.

Cavallo came out as gay in October 2021. At the time, there were no other openly-gay male footballers playing professional top-flight football, in the world. In becoming the first to do so, he said in a statement, "I hope that in sharing who I am, I can show others who identify as LGBTQ+ that they are welcome in the football community."

[beardedmrbean]

Tens of thousands of Georgians have gathered in the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, in response to a call from the pro-Western president to press for the annulment of Saturday's election.

Earlier, President Salome Zourabichivili, who has sided with the opposition, called on Georgians to rally outside parliament, telling the BBC's Steve Rosenberg that this was a "crucial moment".

She appealed to the international community to stand behind her country's population after a disputed election that she says was "totally falsified".

The ruling Georgian Dream party and the election commission are adamant the result, giving the government almost 54% of the vote, was free and fair.

However, Zourabichvili urged Georgia's partners needed to see what was happening, adding that the government's victory was "not the will of the Georgian people" who wanted to keep their European future.

Zourabichvili made clear the protest would be "very peaceful", adding that she did not believe Georgia's authorities wanted confrontation.

It is not entirely clear what she and the four opposition groups hope to achieve by bringing Georgians on to the main avenue in front of the parliament on Monday.

"The main thing we want here is to get what we deserve - legal elections. No-one had any idea this would happen. At first we were frustrated, then we realised what happened and now we're angry," said Lasha, 22.

Liza, 20, said wanted "another election that isn’t forged".

"I’m really happy a lot of young people are here. Most of the speakers from the four opposition parties are saying don’t give up," she added.

Another protester, Keta, told the BBC that she felt "cheated and frustrated". "Me and my friends and my family deserve way better than we have right now... We will fight to the end until we get our justice."

The president said it was up to the people and the political parties to decide what happened next.

"My call was to have a demonstration but where does the Georgian population stand? It's what we're going to see tonight."

"Maybe we won't be able to achieve it today or tomorrow," she said.

"There are a number of things that can be done. There can be an international review of some of the elements of the election, there can be a call for new elections. In what period of time I don't know."

The European Union, Nato and the US have called for a full investigation into allegations by monitoring missions of vote fraud before and on the day of Saturday's vote.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Georgians had a "right to see that electoral irregularities are investigated swiftly, transparently and independently."

She added that "Georgians, like all Europeans, must be the masters of their own destiny."

The call for protest echoes weeks of demonstrations that brought Tbilisi's central Rustaveli Avenue to a standstill for weeks earlier this year.

There were clashes with riot police, who responded with water cannon, tear gas and force, as Georgians tried to stop the government pushing through a Russian-style "foreign agents" law targeting media and civil society groups that have foreign funding.

Ultimately the protests failed and the EU froze Georgia's bid to join the 27-country union, accusing it of democratic backsliding.

The government has clearly prepared for further protests. Last week it emerged that the interior minister had bought new water cannon vehicles and other equipment for riot police, including lethal weapons, for use "when it becomes necessary".

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has told the BBC that alleged violations ahead and during the vote were confined to "just a couple" of polling stations. He said that "the general content of the elections was in line with legal principles and the principle of democratic elections."

But President Zourabichvili said the scale of election fraud was unprecedented: "Everything was used that we've ever heard of in this country in a parallel way."

She alleged that, before the elections, families who were dependent on state funds had seen their identity cards taken away.

At the time it was difficult to tell why, she said, but it then became clear the identity cards were being used for so-called carousel voting in Georgia's new electronic voting system - "when one person can vote 10, 15, 17 times with the same ID".

She has also described the result of the vote as a "Russian special operation", stopping short of accusing the Kremlin of direct intervention. Instead, she accused the government of using a "very sophisticated" Russian-inspired propaganda strategy.

The government has vehemently denied having anything to do with Russia, pointing out it is the only country in the region not to have diplomatic ties with Moscow.

Russia fought a five-day war with its southern neighbour in 2008 and still occupies 20% of Georgian territory.

The Kremlin has has denied having anything to with the election and ridiculed Georgia's pro-EU president, whose term in office comes to an end in December.

A handful of international leaders have congratulated Georgian Dream for securing a fourth term in office in the contested election, including Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban.

Orban was due to arrive in Tbilisi on Monday on a two-day visit that has annoyed several of his European partners because of the message it sends the Georgian government.

Germany's foreign ministry spokesman said the Hungarian leader could travel where he wanted, although it was clear he was not speaking on behalf of the EU.

Hungary currently holds the presidency of the EU, but foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stressed that it had "no authority in foreign policy".

"Whatever Mr Orban says in his visit to Georgia, he does not represent the European Union," Borrell told Spanish radio.

[gayaest]

Salome 🩷🐬⭐️ looks intresting. Are any of your older OCs also getting backstories and extra info added?

Thank you so much!!

Yes — I’m planning on writing bios and backstories for every one of my OC’s: including my oldest ones!

I just want to be 100% sure before writing one so I don’t completely change it later on! My characters usually have a lot of small details that involve their backgrounds / backstories, so I want to be sure everything lines up before sharing to everyone!

But yes! Everyone /will/ get one!

If you want to keep up to date on that, you can follow my toyhouse, which is usually where i update them first before sharing on my other socials!

[prairiesongserial]

24.16

“Hold up.” Frankie threw an arm out in front of Salome as they both moved into Car 9, stopping her in her tracks. It also exposed the gun holster under that arm to a family a few seats down and a few passing nuns, the latter of whom seemed to take less offense. “I asked you what the plan was. Running in one direction is not a plan.”

“We have a very limited amount of time,” Salome said. “It is probable that Gusev and Ostrovsky will try to kill or take possession of Herr Hennig before the Freiburg stop, which only allows us fourteen minutes to incapacitate them before they make their move.”

“Perfect.” Frankie cracked her knuckles. She’d been told both by her brother and the Pope himself not to cause a scene aboard the train, but she couldn’t help it if there were extenuating circumstances. “You’re sure they’re both here?”

“We should act as though that is true,” Salome replied.

Frankie could see the wisdom in that. Gusev and Ostrovsky were partners–where one went, the other usually wasn’t far behind. Or so she heard. It wouldn’t do to keep all of their attention on Vanya while Yuri was no doubt sneaking around elsewhere on the train.

“Is it wise to stop moving?” Salome said.

“Hennig is in Car 7,” Frankie replied. She waggled two fingers in place–there were two train cars between them and Hennig, and Vanya had a head start. Even if he and his partner had been seated elsewhere for the ride, they’d almost certainly be closing in on Car 7 now. But Frankie was willing to bet they wouldn’t make their move yet, either. They’d want to get as close to Freiburg as possible before they caused a scene.

The nun who had been raving about men with guns on the train had gone the opposite way, into Car 11. Frankie only noted this because she had really had enough nuns for one day; unfortunately, now that one sister had seen what she considered hijackers, the rest of them probably weren’t going to shut up about it, either. At least it would give her and Salome room to throw the Russians under the bus (or train, rather) if there did happen to be shots fired.

“We have all the time we need,” said Frankie. “Now, when you say incapacitate–”

She was silenced by a sharp look from Salome. Frankie caught the drift a second later when the noise of a rattling cart being pushed up the aisle of the train reached her.

“Drinks?” the stewardess asked.

Frankie waved her on. “Kind of in the middle of something, sweetheart.”

She stepped aside to let the stewardess hurry past with her cart. Salome did the same on the opposite side of the aisle, hunching slightly to keep the top of her head from scraping against the underside of the overhead luggage compartments.

“She’s in a hurry,” Frankie mused.

“The drinks service is late,” Salome said. She had probably been timing it against the train schedule in that big brain of hers. “It’s about to be even later. I suspect she’s going to run into that nun and her friend, and they will attempt to warn her about the hijackers.”

“Think she��ll do anything?”

Salome frowned thoughtfully. “I’m unsure. She seems obligated to help them, but a stewardess lacks the power to investigate thoroughly, and has a schedule on which to perform her regular duties. She may try to pawn them off on a superior, or take them to see the conductor.” She paused for a moment, then added, “It is probable that they return through here. We should not be here when that happens. We need to take care of Gusev and Ostrovsky before they successfully convince anyone that an emergency stop is necessary.”

She paused again, looking conflicted. It was a rare look on her, so rare that Frankie nearly didn’t recognize it at first.

“What?” Frankie asked.

“I have an opinion based on conjecture,” Salome said.

“Okay. And?”

“I prefer to form my opinions based on concrete evidence,” Salome said, folding her hands behind her back. “I was deliberating whether or not to share this one.”

Frankie blew a piece of hair out of her face, then said, “By all means, share with the class.”

“I think the American man with that nun is present due to an ulterior motive.”

“What?” Frankie asked. It was so loud that several other people in the car turned to look at her; she offered them no more than an apologetic shrug, but lowered her voice to a hiss regardless. “Why? He’s just some civilian.”

“My facial recognition database says he is an 80% match to Valerie Lecter, who is wanted for crimes against Hemisphere America that include theft, destruction of property, and the murder of multiple Hemisphere agents,” Salome said. Frankie searched her face frantically for a hint of humor, or any trace of irony at all. There was none.

Frankie dragged her hands down her face. “You’re shitting me.”

“I assure you I am not.”

“How do you know?”

Salome turned to look back at her. “I do not think we have time for you to be asking that.”

“Sal. Salami. Seriously. How the fuck do you know that?”

“I read and store the contents of every Hemisphere news transmission the Vatican receives,” Salome said, like it was something Frankie should have already known. “Hemisphere America experienced complications in Maine roughly a month and a half ago. Their leader being shot there is the reason the election is being held. Valerie Lecter and his known associates were direct instigators of those complications.”

“Maybe he’s just here by coincidence,” Frankie said, strained.

Salome made a noise that indicated she disagreed, but didn’t want to waste time arguing the point. She was probably right–they could discuss it at length later, once the more immediate problem was taken care of. Frankie still didn’t have to like it. The number of competing factions on this train might be as high as four–if there really were ‘men with guns’ separate from Gusev and Ostrovsky, and if Valerie Lecter was raising the alarm for his own purposes.

“God damn it–the Russians,” Frankie said, in a clumsy attempt to redirect. “What do you think? What’s the plan? We flank ‘em? I’ll go up top and go around, you go straight through Car 8, meet in the middle and get incapacitating?”

“You’re suggesting open aggression?” Salome said.

“I think we lost our chance at subtlety about fifteen minutes ago.”

“We were told not to disturb Hennig prior to disembarking from the train in Milan,” Salome said, and she was right, of course. That had been the explicit instruction given to the pair of cardinals. Still, with how tits-up this job had gone already, Frankie felt more than justified in throwing their instructions out the window.

“If we don’t disturb him, he probably won’t be alive to disembark,” she pointed out.

Salome considered this, then nodded. “You are probably right. We should still refrain from resorting to violence in front of the target, if we can help it. He will be more likely to accept our escort to the Vatican that way.”

“Well, he won’t really have a choice about accepting the escort,” Frankie said, “but I guess the more cooperative, the better. Are we shooting the Russians on sight?”

“Try to subdue them quietly. Gunfire should be our last resort.”

Frankie sighed. “You always know how to disappoint me, Sal. Aren’t they gonna be shooting at us?”

“Gusev and Ostrovsky are long-range shooters. They likely have sniper rifles. Nothing for close-range combat.”

“So you want us to get up close and personal with the Russian assassins. Got it. You know one of us isn’t made of metal, yeah?”

“The American and the nun already reported men with guns. Gunfire would lend credence to their claims, and lead to the train being stopped. An avenue for the Russians to escape, or Hennig to leave.” Salome blinked for the first time in many minutes, and it lasted just a little too long, like she was actually looking at something on the inside of her eyelids. “We should also ensure no civilians on the train are hurt. It would look bad for the Vatican.”

Unfortunately, she was right. The Pope already had an image issue, and it would be worse if two cardinals shot up a train in broad daylight. No doubt he could–and would–deal with it. Under these circumstances, it would be easy to tell a sanitized version of the truth and say the cardinals had been preventing Hennig’s murder. Even so, Frankie would be fired and blackballed for letting it happen. Maybe they’d even kill her. Frankie swallowed, not particularly enjoying the thought.

“Yeah, okay,” she said. “Guns as a last resort. Got it. I’ll go high, you go low?”

Salome nodded, then said, “Yes.”

“Great. See you in five.”

Frankie turned to go, and found herself face to face with the same stewardess she’d waved on not five minutes ago. Directly on the stewardess’s heels were Valerie Lecter, the American, and the nervous-looking nun who had supposedly seen train hijackers. Frankie barely suppressed a surprised swear, and stepped backwards to let them all rush through, meeting Salome’s eyes across the aisle.

“I told you,” Salome said, blandly.

Frankie didn’t bother retorting; she was starting to feel the time crunch catch up to them. She slipped out into the aisle and towards the door , heading for the stairs up to the dining car. Maybe if there was no line, she’d get a pastry on the way back down. Fighting always made her hungry.

24.15 || 24.17

[mariacallous]

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has condemned the “horrifying murder” of transgender woman Kesaria Abramidze, who died from multiple stab wounds in her home on Wednesday.

Abramidze, a well-known 37-year-old model, was found dead by her neighbors, who were alerted by screams coming from her apartment. A 26-year-old man, allegedly her ex-partner, was arrested after CCTV footage showed him fleeing the building 15 minutes after his arrival.

“Horrifying murder! Rejection of humanity! This should be a sobering call … Hatred drenched in hatred, which weakens and divides us and gives a hand to an enemy to manipulate us,” Zourabichvili wrote on her personal Facebook page. “I hope the death of this beautiful young woman will make us more humane, more Christian. I hope this tragedy will not be in vain.”

Abramidze’s killing comes just a day after the Georgian parliament passed its anti-LGBTQ+ law, despite strong warnings from the European Union that it would harm Georgia’s EU accession. Zourabichvili had opposed the legislation, dubbing it a “Russian law” designed to “divide society.”

Adopted under the guise of protecting family values and minors, the legislation, among other things, bans medical treatments for changing gender, “LGBT propaganda” and same-sex marriages.

The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, had warned that the law “undermines the fundamental rights of the Georgian people.”

“I call on Georgia to withdraw this legislation, which further derails the country from its EU path,” he wrote on X on Wednesday.

However, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze defended the bill, describing it as a tool to improve the perception of Europe among Georgians as a place of “traditional and Christian values,” rather than one of “LGBT propaganda.”

“This law ensures that a man should be called a man and a woman should be called a woman,” Kobakhidze said on Wednesday.

Double pressure

Gender and gender identity intolerance remain the leading motives of hate crimes in Georgia, according to the Georgian Prosecutor’s 2023 report. Out of 1,218 persons charged with hate crimes last year, 1,164 were charged on the ground of gender-based hate crimes.

“The majority of defendants charged with hate crimes are adult men and the majority of the victims of hate crimes are adult women,” says the report.

After Abramidze’s death made headlines, Temida, an organization that helps Georgia’s LGBTQ+ community with shelter, psychological and other health services, launched a hotline to offer psychological aid.

“We have received up to 16 calls since yesterday,” said Beka Gabadadze, the chairperson of Temida, adding that callers had asked: “If she was killed, someone so successful and well-off, what will happen to us?”

There have been three other high-profile murders of transgender women in Georgia in the past decade.

Temida, along with other service providers for the LGBTQ+ community, is facing a two-fold threat to its work in Georgia.

The Russian-leaning Georgian Dream government recently adopted its “foreign agent bill,” requiring organizations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as “serving the interests of a foreign power.”

Civil society groups have argued that the law allows the government to disclose an unjustified amount of information about their staff and beneficiaries.

Gabadadze fears Temida won’t be able to operate under this double pressure and the organization will be forced to close down if the government demands it share its beneficiaries’ personal information.

“This would mean I’d need to out people. It’s better for us to close down than disclose this information,” he said.

He elaborated that the adoption of the anti-LGBTQ+ law may contribute to the prevalence of HIV in the country, as their awareness-raising campaigns could be interpreted as “LGBT propaganda” under the new law.

“Our services aimed at HIV prevention require outreach. We won’t be able to do this efficiently, which could lead to a rise of HIV cases,” he said.

Last year Georgia’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride event was evacuated by the police after hundreds of counterprotesters stormed the site.

[southeastproper]

More Minutes of Sleep Improve Brain Power by 2-3X with 20 More Minutes of Sleep

Take a deeper take a look at how sleep impacts the brain and you'll discover an array of advantages. Is it really that easy to enhance brain power? According to a recent piece from Huffington Post's Christine Comaford, the click here answer might be that easy. This along with other research underlines the incredibly effective value that sleep carries us during the day.

We can see the power of sleep on our brains through several lines of research-- consisting of child brain development, enhanced brain power in grownups through sleep, and the results of sleep on stress and anxiety, anxiety, and more.

Follow along as we take an appearance at some crucial areas of the interplay in between brain power and sleep!

Kid Brain Advancement: Sleep Impacts Function and Maturity

Vince Pierri reports that according to a current research study published in the journal "Brain Sciences," University of Colorado Stone discovered that neuro-connections were considerably reinforced as youngsters slept.

These conclusions came as an outcome of various electroencephalograms (EEG) of youngsters at ages 2, 3, and 5 years of ages. General brain function and maturity increased, according to the research leaders. However, when the youngsters did not have sleep, brain advancement may be obstructed.

Research leader Salome Kurth commented on the latter result in a press release: "I think insufficient sleep in childhood may affect he maturation of the brain relevant to the development of developmental or state of mind disorders.".

When it comes to the impacts of sleep on the brain, researchers say that language advancement and attention period are strengthened by such healthy connections. Pierri includes that this research study is yet another in the line of recent researches that talk with the significance of sleep for kids and teenagers. He notes a University of Pennsylvania research study that discovered that added sleep can decrease the danger of being obese. Another research study associated sufficient sleep to more secure teenager professional athletes.

[tempodadisperati]

Gesù Cristo figlio unico?

Puoi dimostrarlo con la Bibbia? 

Certo! 

Matteo 13,55:

Non è egli forse il figlio del carpentiere? Sua madre non si chiama Maria e i suoi fratelli Giacomo, Giuseppe, Simone e Giuda?

Marco 6,3:

Non è costui il carpentiere, il figlio di Maria, il fratello di Giacomo, di Ioses, di Giuda e di Simone? E le sue sorelle non stanno qui da noi?

Nella Bibbia fratello è utilizzato in senso ben più ampio rispetto ai fratelli couterini o germani (Genesi 4,1-2; Matteo 4,21), e può essere riferito anche ai cugini (1Cronache 23,21-22), a zio e nipote (confronta Genesi 13,8 con Genesi 11,27), ai concittadini (Genesi 19,6-7), ai membri di una tribù (1Cronache 15,4-10), ai connazionali (Esodo 2,11; Deuteronomio 18,15; Atti 3,17), agli sposi (Tobia 7,12), ai bisognosi (Matteo 25,40), ai discepoli di Gesù (Giovanni 20,17-18) e a tutti coloro che fanno la volontà di Dio (Matteo 12,49-50).

La madre di Giacomo e di Ioses (forma ellenistica di Giuseppe) si chiama Maria

Matteo 27,55-56:

C’erano anche là molte donne che stavano a osservare da lontano; esse avevano seguito Gesù dalla Galilea per servirlo. Tra costoro Maria di Màgdala, MARIA MADRE DI GIACOMO E DI GIUSEPPE, e la madre dei figli di Zebedèo.

Marco 15,40-41:

C’erano anche alcune donne, che stavano ad osservare da lontano, tra le quali Maria di Màgdala, MARIA MADRE DI GIACOMO IL MINORE E DI IOSES, e Salome, che lo seguivano e servivano quando era ancora in Galilea, e molte altre che erano salite con lui a Gerusalemme.

La madre di Giacomo e di Ioses è talvolta chiamata l’altra Maria per distinguerla dalla madre di Gesù e dalla Maddalena

Matteo 27,61:

Erano lì, davanti al sepolcro, Maria di Màgdala e L’ALTRA MARIA.

Matteo 28,1:

Passato il sabato, all’alba del primo giorno della settimana, Maria di Màgdala e L’ALTRA MARIA andarono a visitare il sepolcro.

Marco 16,1:

Passato il sabato, Maria di Màgdala, MARIA DI GIACOMO e Salome comprarono oli aromatici per andare a imbalsamare Gesù.

Luca 24,9-10:

E, tornate dal sepolcro, annunziarono tutto questo agli Undici e a tutti gli altri. Erano Maria di Màgdala, Giovanna e MARIA DI GIACOMO. Anche le altre che erano insieme lo raccontarono agli apostoli.

Questa Maria, madre di Giacomo e di Ioses, è la moglie di Clèopa

Matteo 27,55-56:

C’erano anche là molte donne che stavano a osservare da lontano; esse avevano seguito Gesù dalla Galilea per servirlo. Tra costoro Maria di Màgdala, MARIA MADRE DI GIACOMO E DI GIUSEPPE, e la madre dei figli di Zebedèo.

Marco 15,40-41:

C’erano anche alcune donne, che stavano ad osservare da lontano, tra le quali Maria di Màgdala, MARIA MADRE DI GIACOMO IL MINORE E DI IOSES, e Salome, che lo seguivano e servivano quando era ancora in Galilea, e molte altre che erano salite con lui a Gerusalemme.

Giovanni 19,25:

Stavano presso la croce di Gesù sua madre e la sorella di sua madre, MARIA DI CLÈOPA, e Maria di Màgdala.

Maria di Clèopa è la cognata della madre di Gesù, e per questo è menzionata come sorella di lei. Infatti, secondo quanto afferma lo scrittore giudeo cristiano Egesippo (110-180), menzionato da Eusebio (Storia Ecclesiastica III, 11.32), Clèopa è il fratello di Giuseppe, lo sposo della madre di Gesù. Egesippo avrà ottenuto queste informazioni da qualche discendente di Clèopa. Perciò Giacomo il minore e Ioses sono cugini di Gesù. Giacomo il minore va identificato con l’apostolo Giacomo di Alfeo (Matteo 10,3; Marco 3,18; Luca 6,15; Atti 1,13), il fratello del Signore (Galati 1,19), primo vescovo di Gerusalemme (menzionato anche come una delle colonne della Chiesa [Galati 2,9]). Perciò Alfeo di Giacomo (da non confondere con Alfeo padre di Levi [Marco 2,14]) e Clèopa sono la medesima persona. Secondo Egesippo (Storia Ecclesiastica III, 11), anche Simone è figlio di Clèopa. Quanto a Giuda, autore della omonima lettera, si presenta come fratello di Giacomo (Giuda 1). Probabilmente si tratta dell’apostolo Taddeo, detto anche Giuda di Giacomo (confronta Matteo 10,3 con Luca 6,16 e Atti 1,13). Perciò Giacomo, Ioses, Simone e Giuda, menzionati nei vangeli come fratelli di Gesù, sono suoi cugini.

di Giuseppe Monno 

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint John the Evangelist

Died: 100 AD

Feast Day: December 27

Patronage: writers, editors, bookbinders, painters, for purity, against idolatry, against burns, against poisoning

St John the Evangelist, called John the Apostle or the Beloved Disciple was a Galilean, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and younger brother of St. James the Greater. The author of the Gospel of John and one of Christ's original twelve apostles, he is the only one to live into old age. He witnessed Our Lord in His Agony and His Transfiguration and was the only Apostle to remain near his beloved Master at the foot of the Cross on Calvary with the Mother of Jesus

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[archxngxl]

Sal sighed. He rolled his shoulders before speaking. "Polly, this is Salome." The man introduced the blonde to the brunette. "She's a weapons dealer my family had ties with. Oh, and she's batshit crazy." Sal added the insult out of his own need, since every bone in his body disliked Salome. Sure, she was a helpful asset in their business but nothing more than that.

When Sal saw the hand come up, he stepped forward out of instinct. "Don't you fucking dare." The man threatened, coming between the two women. He eyed Salome, his glare was strong enough to rival hers. "You need to leave, Salome." His voice showed malice and he was prepared to help her leave, if it meant keeping Polly out of harms way. People in the restaurant began to stare, and Sal was sure Polly's cop friend would soon show up. That was the last thing they needed. "I mean it."

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