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Date Posted: Thu, December 15 2022, 21:08:00
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Friday, December 16, 2022

The following quote is from “Besieged,” in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2017 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“‘No, me lord. Azeel says sweet oil draws spiders. They come and lick it off your skin whilst you’re asleep.’
Lord John and his valet shuddered simultaneously, recollecting last week’s experience with a banana spider—a creature with a leg span the size of a child’s hand—that had burst unexpectedly out of a ripe banana, followed by what appeared at the time to be several hundred small offspring, at a garden party given by Grey to mark his departure from the island and to welcome the Honorable Mr. Houghton Braythwaite, his successor as governor.
‘I thought he’d have an apoplexy on the spot,’ Grey said, lips twitching.
‘Likely wishes he had.’
Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite’s face on this occasion.”

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[> It is funny to remember, but I’m SURE I’d have an apoplexy on the spot if I saw a mama spider and a slew of babies run out of my bananas. 😵 -- Kathy in PA, Fri, December 16 2022, 5:14:11


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[> [> Both of my kids (32 & 28) would undoubtedly set their houses on fire if this happened to them! -- DianaH, Fri, December 16 2022, 9:33:46


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[> I'll do next week if no one else has it...got a theme in mid! -- Janet, Fri, December 16 2022, 10:59:53


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[> [> Thank you! Looking forward to that. -- kgp, Fri, December 16 2022, 14:02:11


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[> [> Great! They’re fun to try to figure out. -- Kathy in PA, Fri, December 16 2022, 18:57:18


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