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Simple math behind early retirement5/20/2023 DiValerio eats mostly vegetarian, with some fish. And she’s all trimmed the fat out of her budget…literally. So how does she do it?įor starters, she owns her small studio apartment outright, and it’s in a not-so-fancy part of town. And no, as she writes on her blog, it’s not because she has a sugar daddy footing her bills. Embrace Boxed WineĭiValerio says she saves three-quarters of her $75,000 flight attendant salary, plus has a additional income from side hustles including selling furniture she refurbishes on Craigslist and eBay as well as house and dog sitting. "I like me some fancy stuff, too, but I don't want to work too long to afford it," she says. She'll still occasionally go out for a nice restaurant meal, and it's a conscious splurge when she does. She loves inviting friends over to cook and drink wine. ![]() She is grateful to have some nearby, and in the cities she visits for work, with whom she can picnic and otherwise hang out on the cheap. “There are money nerds anywhere,” DiValerio says. She herself started blogging herself in 2016, at. ![]() 13, 2012 post called “ The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement” is widely considered the playbook for constructing a portfolio to sustain you for decades after you stop collecting a paycheck. Money Mustache, an influential blog written by Pete Adeney, a former engineer who retired at 30 and lives in Colorado with his wife and son. She’d always been a good saver, and since discovering the FIRE community in 2015, DiValerio began teaching herself the path to financial independence. Find Your TribeĭiValerio is a woman who doesn't have a college degree and math was never her best subject. Here’s how she went from being a near-broke divorcee to standing on the cusp of financial freedom. ![]() But she does plan to be choosier about her shifts, and to take extended breaks to travel and volunteer. They hang out on blogs and Reddit, swapping tips about Roth retirement accounts and the best mortgages for their multi-family investment properties, and sometimes meet up in real life at conferences and retreats.įor her part, DiValerio doesn’t plan to do nothing when she reaches financial independence. It’s a term adopted by super savers who aim to quit the rat race decades before their peers, typically before they reach 40. “But the numbers don’t lie, and I worked my butt off to get here.”ĭiValerio belongs to the FIRE movement, short for Financial Independence/Retire Early. “I am in disbelief that I am where I am,” says DiValerio. Today the Chicago flight attendant, 39, projects she’ll reach financial independence within a year-that is, she calculates she will have saved enough so she won’t need to work for the rest of her life. Just five years ago, Bianca DiValerio was struggling through a divorce and the last of three short sales that nearly wiped her savings out during the financial crisis.
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Umineko when they cry episode 3 volume 35/20/2023 ![]() Stuff like that gets revealed later so if you judge this chapter individually then you're being unfair. Umineko is a weird story you see so when ,as a person who's finished it, read through and see the "extremely" subtle foreshadowing and clues I can't help but smile to myself as I read. Okay so I might seem pretty biased since I've already finished it (the entire series) but I'm really not. No answers to the matter of what exactly "witches" are and no proper bearing of the situation as a whole being given by the author. Weird "furniture" being summoned with absolutely no explanations. That's probably what a completely new reader to this would ask on more than one occasion. The 3rd installment of the Umineko series and an episode which is more enjoyable than the previous ones in many ways. If you read this review without being acquainted with the Umineko No Naku Koro Ni series, try to give it a chance. I think it is a fair score for such nice experience. It gave me sleepless nights, because I wanted to know what happens in the next chapters (thanks to cliffhangers). Personally, I really enjoyed this episode. ![]() And also we get development of those characters, which really makes your reading experience more enjoyable. There was a moment, where I turned over the page and got scared.Ĭharacters are interesting as always: Charismatic Buttler, foxy Beatrice, ambitious Eva and etc. Emotions of despair, fear, horror and madness are drawn in way that you will get shivers. Just like in the other episodes art is very good. the overall story, where readers have to deal with plot twists. Without going to spoilers I want to say that their backstories are key features of this episode, because we get explanation of characters' motivations. Instead of focusing only on battle where Beatrice and Buttler are trying to defeat one another, story provides us with Eva's and Beato's past. The plot continues to show the great confrontation of minds, but in this episode we receive something slightly different. So let me explain why this episode of the story stands out more than the previous two and deserves 9/10. It's strange that there are no reviews for this manga.
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Business templates for pages5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Rock Kitchen Harris, a full-service agency, decided to skip the photos altogether and showcase the cartoon versions of their employees instead.Įach employee at the English agency had a custom caricature drawn up, and every single one has a different personality. As a digital design agency, these small moments show capability. Why this works: Bolden implements a subtle but unique and effective hover effect for its team member cards for some extra visual flair. This is a great example of a minimal, accessible "Meet the Team" page that manages to look cool and introduce the faces behind the agency without going over the top. Hovering over each team member's picture produces a darker alternative almost like an image negative, revealing the employee’s name along with an outfit change. It also provides a sense of friendly nostalgia to new visitors.īolden's team bios are more conventional than some of the others on this list, but what they lack in invention they make up for in style. Why this works: This clever idea highlights both the diversity of backgrounds that the CloudHorizon team brings, as well as the uniqueness of each member. ![]() ![]() When you hover over an image of a team member, their thumbnail flips to reveal a photo from their childhood with a small caption of what they wanted to be when they grew up. With this in mind, CloudHorizon’s “Meet our team” section is a great way to illustrate that idea. On its about page, it says, "Some of the more rewarding projects we have had the honour to be involved in, started with simple ideas and grew profitable businesses from the ground up." Why this works: Digital Marmalade balances its show of technical proficiency and fun with employee stats that list both skills and “superpowers.” Additionally, headshots are all similar in composition and background.ĬloudHorizon is a mobile product development company. It's a quirky twist that gives visitors a colorful snapshot of the agency's team, highlighting both their impressive experience and friendly culture. ") the folks at Digital Marmalade decided to have a little fun with the format.Įach employee at the London-based marketing agency has a trading card-style profile detailing their actual marketing accomplishments and personal facts, as well as their fictional superhero abilities. Since most employee bios read a lot like a list of stats ("10 years in the industry. Why this works: Large grayscale headshots of team members bring character and personality to the brand while maintaining visual consistency. Most won’t notice this detail, but it results in a page with maximum readability. Notice how Philly Reps has made each description roughly the same length to maintain balance and alignment between grid elements. Members are presented in grayscale images that take up the majority of screen space for a nice consistent look and feel.īelow images are brief descriptions of each member. This way, it’s clear who’s behind the agency.Īs a contrast to more elaborate designs we’ll see later in this list, Philly Reps is another agency that takes a cleaner, more minimal approach to its team page. Why this works: Yokel Local doesn’t go overboard with its “Meet the Team” page, and it doesn’t need to - everything potential clients need to know is presented in a clean grid format. What's pleasing about this particular page is the simplicity: The grid design provides a modern feel, and clicking on a face opens a box with more information about the team member, including their bio, credentials, and social profiles. For that reason, this agency showcases its staff to highlight the humans behind the brand. Yokel Local is a HubSpot Agency Partner that positions itself as an extension of its clients' marketing teams.
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Hand of fate stones5/19/2023 ![]() In the corner, there’s a simple workbench, where Friedrichs-Friedländer has left a hammer, a set of metal stamps, and a sheet of paper bearing a series of names, dates and the word ‘Auschwitz’.įor the last 14 years, Friedrichs-Friedländer has hand-engraved individual Holocaust fates onto small commemorative plaques called Stolpersteine, or ‘stumbling stones’. ![]() ![]() A large-scale map of Germany is pinned to the far wall. There’s a back door open onto a garden, letting in a wash of late-afternoon sun. ![]() Inside, the garage smells of fresh cement, with lingering wafts of strong coffee and cigarettes. “The neighbours all know what I do, but I don’t want any outside trouble.” “I’d ask you not to mention the precise location,” he said. He casts a watchful glance down the road, as if to check I’ve come here alone. It was a setlist for all seasons, from Muddy Waters' 'Mannish Boy' and Bo Diddley's 'Crackin' Up' to staples such as 'Let's Spend The Night Together' and 'Tumbling Dice,' and back to the blues with Big Maceo's 'Worried Life Blues' and Willie Dixon's 'Little Red Rooster.' There was the live debut of 'Worried About You,' not heard in studio form until 1981's Tattoo You, and more highlights from 'Honky Tonk Women' to 'Hot Stuff.' Forty-five years on, this is a trip back to the intensity of the Crawdaddy Club in the Stones' earliest days, as revisited by the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.At the end of a quiet, suburban cul-de-sac in north-eastern Berlin, Michael Friedrichs-Friedländer quickly ushers me into his garage. Against all the odds, the band produced two nights of exhilarating music that they still talk about in Toronto, and in Rolling Stones legend, to this day. On the nights, naturally, April Wine were themselves the opening act, and so it was that the Stones rolled back the years to the exhilarating club incarnation of their early years. A radio contest was organised in which the prize was tickets to see Canadian rock heroes April Wine, supported by an unknown band called the Cockroaches. The gigs became reality after the El Mocambo was identified as the potential home for a secret booking. Over two nights, in an intimate space in one of their favourite cities, they were about to make that prognosis look foolish indeed. Only four of the performances found their way onto the Love You Live album that followed in September 1977, which was dominated by tracks captured on the band's 1975 and '76 tours, with the full set having never been heard before.Īs the Stones took to the stage of the “El Mo,” a fixture of the Toronto music scene since the 1940s, punk and disco were both rearing into full view, supposedly ready to see off a band who had already been at the top of their game for 15 years. It features the Stones' full set from the March 5 show, plus three bonus tracks from the March 4 gig, newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Live At The El Mocambo marks the first official appearance of the group's two famous secret concerts at the 300-capacity Toronto club in March 1977. A legendary event in the incredible 60-year history of the Rolling Stones is being released in full for the first time on Friday, April 29th.
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Capto q column5/19/2023 ![]() It has the advantage of simulating physical phenomena that involve memory effects or non-local interactions. The Liouville–Caputo fractional operator is a generalization of the classical derivative operator and can be used to solve FDEs with non-integer order derivatives. The Liouville–Caputo fractional operator is considered a powerful tool for solving fractional differential equations (FDEs) that have been used widely for simulating different complex problems. There is a close relationship between these two definitions since they can be converted through some regularity assumption. Each of these definitions adheres to some advantages and disadvantageous over the other and the most widely used of these applications is the Liouville–Caputo and Riemann–Liouville operators. There are various definitions of the fractional order including the Riemann–Liouville operator, Grünwald–Letnikov operator, Liouville–Caputo operator and Weyl–Riesz operator. They can also be used to describe chaotic systems in physics and other fields. Additionally, other applications of fractional calculus in several branches of science and engineering include the simulation of the model of viscoelastic materials in engineering applications and financial markets in economics. employed an exponential Euler scheme for simulating the multi-delay Caputo–Fabrizio fractional-order differential equations with application in control theory. investigated the possible application of fractional definitions to simulate a class of nonlinear fractional Langevin equations with important application in fluid dynamics. In addition, fractional derivatives are useful in many fields such as physics, engineering, economics, and finance. This allows for more complex phenomena such as memory effects, diffusion processes, and chaotic systems that might be difficult to solve using traditional definitions. This means that instead of taking derivatives or integrals concerning a single variable (as in traditional calculus), fractional calculus allows for derivatives or integrals to be taken concerning multiple variables simultaneously. These definitions vary depending on the context in which it is used, which in general have a common definition as the study of derivatives and integrals with non-integer orders. However, over time, its usefulness has been recognized and there have been various definitions and properties. The concept of fractional calculus was initially met with skepticism due to its unfamiliarity and lack of intuitive understanding. It has been around since the late 17th century when Gottfried Leibniz first proposed the concept of fractional derivatives, which has developed into a powerful tool for simulating different physical problems in many areas such as physics, chemistry, engineering, economics, and biology. The technique proves to be a valuable approach that can be extended in the future for other fractional models having real applications such as the fractional partial differential equations and fractional integro-differential equations.įractional calculus is a branch of mathematics that deals with the study of derivatives and integrals of non-integer order. ![]() The method is shown to give better results than the other methods using a lower number of bases and with less spent time, and helped in highlighting some of the important features of the model. The outcomes of the numerical examples support the theoretical results and show the accuracy and applicability of the presented approach. In addition, the computational time is computed and tabulated to ensure the efficacy and robustness of the method. To test the effectiveness of the proposed technique, several examples are simulated using the presented technique and these results are compared with other techniques from the literature. An error analysis for the method is proved to verify the convergence of the acquired solutions. We first present the differentiation matrix of fractional order that is used to convert the problem and its conditions into an algebraic system of equations with unknown coefficients, which are then used to find the solutions to the proposed models. We adapt a collocation technique involving a new operational matrix that utilizes the Liouville–Caputo operator of differentiation and Morgan–Voyce polynomials, in combination with the Tau spectral method. ![]() The model is considered one of the important models to simulate the coupled oscillator and various other applications in science and engineering. In this research, we present a new computational technique for solving some physics problems involving fractional-order differential equations including the famous Bagley–Torvik method.
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Utopia prime video5/19/2023 It puts us in a position where we are easy to manipulate. Even science has become debatable, which is very frightening. We’re in this weird place where truth has become malleable. Certainly there is that idea that if you look hard enough, and if you want it bad enough, you have the ability to convince yourself of anything. I was intrigued by the rise of conspiracies at that time - and it’s only become more so - but I wrote it before I knew about QAnon. The weird thing is, I started writing this in 2013. You know when Wilson and Christie make a connection about all the animals becoming wiped out, except the ones that are cute? Christie says, “Never in history has a creature been begging for extinction more than the panda.” Well, if you look closely at Wilson’s wall, there is a big picture of a panda, and he’s written on its forehead: “I suck.”ĭo you see a QAnon quality to the show’ s conspiracy?Ībsolutely. Among other things, he has a Post-it note reminding him to “ call Dennis K,” meaning Dennis Kelly, the creator of the original series?Įxactly. It might also be worth freezing the conspiracy wall Wilson Wilson (Desmin Borges) constructed. Could that be irresponsible? Even dangerous? The show’s resemblance to our own very real pandemic was accidental, but it lends it an uneasy verisimilitude, inspiring a few critics to lament what felt like a validation of anti-vaccine crankdom in the era of QAnon. ![]() In Christie’s view, humans are the real virus, wiping out other creatures, and he’s convincing enough to make one of the show’s crusading characters join his mad cult. Kevin Christie (John Cusack), who created the bogus vaccine and is also a secret human trafficker, finally reveals his master plan: His vaccine is designed to make people infertile in order to radically reduce the world’s population. Near the end of the show’s first season, released in late September, the biotech chief executive Dr. This revelation, and much else, has been coded into mysterious comic books (“Dystopia” and its sequel “Utopia”), whose most obsessed readers eventually learn that the epidemic has been engineered, the media and the government have been manipulated and shadowy forces are promoting a worthless vaccine. Adapted from a 2013 British show by the same name, the series centers on a wild conspiracy theory about viral epidemics - or not so wild, as it turns out, because the theory proves to be true. The world of the zeitgeisty Amazon Prime thriller “ Utopia” is dauntingly complex. And Sam (Jessica Rothe) was killed off way earlier in the season as a surprise stunner.This interview includes spoilers for the first season of “ Utopia.”.Stearns (Rainn Wilson), riding away in his car, possesses the "mother egg," the last traces of the virus. Jessica also learns that her father is alive. Jessica learns Agent Milner isn't actually with Homeland Security but is, in fact, Jessica's mother, who also detains Jessica Hyde in her "childhood" home. Arby (Christopher Denham) delivers Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane) to Agent Katherine Milner (Sonja Sohn).Ian (Dany Byrd) and Alice (Farrah Mackenzie) run off together, avoiding the police when Grant was found.Christie has swayed Wilson (Desmin Borges), who tricks Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop) to ride with them, effectively kidnapping Becky. Grant (Javon Walton) was arrested, having been framed for murder. ![]() Then end the season all split up, grouped like so: ![]() In the end, our heroes thwarted Christie's plans, but only temporarily. Kevin Christie's plans, which was - through fake vaccines - sterilize Earth's population for three generations, diminishing the world's population to conserve resources. In short, our heroes all learned the truth of Dr. John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Cory Michael Smith in 'Utopia.' Elizabeth Morris/Amazon What happened at the end of Utopia Season 1?
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Adobe updater cs45/19/2023 ![]() This update provides fixes several issues in the areas of hyphenation, INCX import as well as other miscellaneous issues.Īs mentioned above for InDesign, this update doesn’t address the same Leopard issues, and again, Adobe recommends upgrading to Snow Leopard – OS X 10.6.1 – to solve these problems.īoth updates are available using the Adobe Updater service from with your Creative Suite applications. The Place, Save, Save As or Export commands may cause crashes when using either the Adobe or the OS dialog box.Īs a means of fixing these issues, Adobe recommends upgrading to Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6.1. The update promises to be easy to install and use and provides a select number of enhancements that certain people are likely to find useful. The Cmd-H keyboard shortcut doesn’t work to hide the InDesign application. Free Update for Adobe Photoshop Users Adobe Photoshop CS4 Update is a special update that has been created to run with Adobe Photoshop CS4.This update does not address certain issues running Adobe InDesign CS4 on Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5.1-v10.5.5): Not the best advice, but some updates are simply not found anywhere on the adobe site and can only be obtained using Help>Updates from within one of the adobe. Read the release notes (pdf) for a canonical list of fixes. ![]() This update fixes many previous issues in the areas of Scripting, Master Pages, Digital Editions, Import/Export Graphics, as well as other miscellaneous issues. The Adobe Updater 6.0.2 update requires that Adobe Creative Suite 4 software or a Creative Suite 4 component such as Adobe Photoshop CS4, Acrobat 9, or. Course Pemrograman Komputer (IT062308) Academic year: 2015/2016. Gunadarma University Scientific Writing Section. Adobe Systems Incorporated today rolled out updates to their publishing flagship product, InDesign CS4, and its partner program InCopy. Chapter 1 Making an introduction to Betawi special dishes using Dreamwheaver Macromedia 8 and Adobe Photo Scape CS4.
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Typesy reviews5/19/2023 ![]() For more information, contact more information, please see the SEC’s Web Site Privacy and Security Policy. More Information Internet Security Policyīy using this site, you are agreeing to security monitoring and auditing. For security purposes, and to ensure that the public service remains available to users, this government computer system employs programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage, including attempts to deny service to users. Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on any portion of this site are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (see Title 18 U.S.C. To ensure our website performs well for all users, the SEC monitors the frequency of requests for SEC.gov content to ensure automated searches do not impact the ability of others to access SEC.gov content. We reserve the right to block IP addresses that submit excessive requests. Current guidelines limit users to a total of no more than 10 requests per second, regardless of the number of machines used to submit requests. If a user or application submits more than 10 requests per second, further requests from the IP address(es) may be limited for a brief period. Once the rate of requests has dropped below the threshold for 10 minutes, the user may resume accessing content on SEC.gov. This SEC practice is designed to limit excessive automated searches on SEC.gov and is not intended or expected to impact individuals browsing the SEC.gov website. Note that this policy may change as the SEC manages SEC.gov to ensure that the website performs efficiently and remains available to all users. Note: We do not offer technical support for developing or debugging scripted downloading processes.Aqua Finance is a term used to describe the financial management of water resources. Proper aqua finance can help ensure that water is managed in an efficient and sustainable manner, while also helping to promote economic growth. There are a number of different ways to approach aqua finance, and each has its own set of benefits and drawbacks. ![]() One common approach to aqua finance is public-private partnerships (PPP). In a PPP, the government partners with the private sector to manage water resources. This can be a cost-effective way for the government to get access to expertise and funding, while the private sector can benefit from profits generated by water projects. PixPlant quickly creates seamless textures from photos. It is highly automated with most textures created in only a few clicks. Based on photos, PixPlant adds unlimited choice of realistic materials for your projects: pick an interesting photo, run PixPlant and get a perfect seamless 3D texture. PixPlant includes tools to extract 3D maps from photos or from its own generated seamless tiling images. Displacement, Normal, Diffuse, Specular and Ambient Occlusion maps - all the extracted 3D maps can then be fine-tuned with the included editing tools.Įdit Displacement, Normal, Diffuse, Specular and AO maps at multiple scales. PixPlant includes tools for whole-surface editing at fine and coarse level, as well as pixel-level tools for specific precise adjustments. Version 3 of PixPlant includes many new features and improvements: #Download pixplant full crack downloadĭownload the fully-featured demo and see what PixPlant can do for you! PixPlant is being used by well-known companies in many contexts where seamless 3D maps are important, like architectural and interior design, visual effects, 3D virtual prototyping and game development.ģD map changes are instantly rendered in a 3D Preview with displacement and parallax-mapping, supporting your custom 3D models. Revamped 3D preview area with new options, displacement rendering and custom model loading.Įasy to use Seed Wizard in the Texture area simplifying seed image preparation. Fully editable 3D maps with specific tools for each kind. Whole image/surface adjustments as well as pixel editors for image editing and displacement sculpting. Texture and 3D maps can now be edited in an external application with results returned to PixPlant. Ambient Occlusion rendering from a displacement map.
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Just checking to see if you were able5/19/2023 ![]() When people are moving after a broken relationship, it’s common for their exes to get jealous of other people in their new life. Eventually, your ex may try contacting you again or talking things over with their friends who thought that you were seeing someone else during the relationship. This can lead to rumors and miscommunication between friends when they are trying to figure out what happened. When their ex boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t want them to come back, this is when they may start telling everyone in their life about what happened. When two people break up, there is always the chance that they will try to stay in contact with one another to see what could happen. They Want To Make Things Clear So That You Don’t Waste Your Time This could mean that they talk about what happened during the breakup and wonder if there was anything else they could have done to reconcile the problem. When people break up with someone because they don’t think it can work out, then chances are good that at least one person thinks about them deep down inside. They Still Care For You Deep DownĮven though you were in a relationship and then broke up, there may still be feelings of love for each other deep down inside. This could lead them checking on your whereabouts so that they can figure out why things didn’t work out in the past when they were trying to get back together again. When they go through this cycle over and over again, they can’t help but wonder if there is something wrong with how things are going or the timing is off. There are some cases where people have broken up, gotten back together and are now on their second break up. There’s nothing wrong with them checking up on you, just be upfront about it. Your ex could be keeping tabs on you for this reason because their friends might have said something about where you are going after work or who you spend time with after work. When two people break up, they usually keep track of what the other one is doing is saying privately on social media. No matter how much time has passed by, if there was true love between you then nothing will stop them from coming back into your life as quickly as they left it. This is their way of making sure that they can find the right moment to come back into your life and ask for another chance. ![]() While it might seem like you and your ex may never be able to get back together again, they may keep checking up on you because they want to get back. ![]() Such a mindset stems only from your exe’s lack of trust on you and lead them to check up on you even after you are not together. They may also want to find out your views on them so they may know what you’d be saying about them to others. Or maybe, they want to see if you are too hasty and move on with someone else too soon. Your ex might be checking up on you simply because they still believe you to be theirs and do not want you getting in a new relationship. Its Because Of Their Lack Of Trust In You It’s also possible that their guilt is making them wonder if there might be a chance for things to go back to the way they were before the break up happened. This is when they realize that they need to win you over again before someone else does. During this time, you were talking about trying to work it out but your feelings have changed since then. Your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend may still think about what they did during the relationship. Here are 10 reasons why your ex may be checking up on you. While there is no way to know exactly what your ex is thinking, understanding the possible motivations behind their actions can help you get a better idea of where they might be at emotionally. 10 Reasons Your Ex Is Checking Up On YouĪ person’s behaviour can provide clues about their current thoughts and feelings.
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Owly and friends5/19/2023 ![]() OWLY is an iris in the garden of classroom comics: beautiful and delicate.
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