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Forget Dear Abby and prepare your heart.
I'm serious.
And remember this excerpt from none other than J.D. Salinger's Seymour: An Introduction:
You'll deny it up and down, I fear, but I'm really in no position to take your word for it. You're a great bird-lover. Much like a man in a short story called 'Skule Skerry', by John Buchan, which Arnold L. Sugarman, Jr, once pressed me to read during a very poorly supervised study-hall period, you're someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because 'they seemed of all created beings the nearest to pure spirit- those little creatures with a normal temperature of 125°'. Probably just like this John Buchan man, you thought many thrilling related thoughts; you reminded yourself, I don't doubt, that: 'The gold crest, with a stomach no bigger than a bean, flies across the North Sea! The curlew sandpiper, which breeds so far north that only about three people have ever seen its nest, goes to Tasmania for its holidays!' It would be too much of a good thing to hope, of course, that my very own general reader should turn out to be one of the three people who have actually seen the curlew sandpiper's nest, but I feel, at least, that I know him - you - quite well enough to guess what kind of well-meant gesture might be welcomed from me right now.
Please accept this feather as a promise that we are bird-lovers 'till the end.
We've had a lot of trouble getting a permit for the park where we want to have the ceremony. First we called San Diego Park and Recreation. They said it wasn't in their jurisdiction. They gave us the number for Community Parks I Division, which didn't know anything about the park and gave us the first number we called. We visited the Park and Recreation office and they had no idea. The lady pulled out a long list and found the name of the man who tends the park. So we called that guy. He gave us a number of another guy who might be able to issue us a permit. We are currently waiting to hear from him.
At this point we have no idea whether we are going to be able to even get the park. It is only a few blocks away from the reception site. How perfect would that be? Anyhow, we are going to sign the contract at the gallery this week for the reception. The date is mostly set. It's not quite ready to be released, but think save-the-date soon.
