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- catching up with a former Awana worker and having her give me money for Vienna!
- playing with Julienne and bubbles and hearing that sweet little laugh
- coffee with Meredith
- bfast with Bekah from VCS, she was in town to visit her grandparents in Lynchburg
- buying a plane ticket to go to Germany in October plus a phone call from the bank a little over an hour later just to be sure that my past transactions have truly been mine (I was amazed at how quickly they noticed an irregular transaction, since it was in euros and I've been using dollars over the past month!)
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