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In one television advertisement, she appears fleetingly porcelain-skinned, raven-haired and holding her toddler son. mother died of cancer at 53, he says in the ad, which focuses on health care. those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well.

She’s a terrific secretary. She’ll never see 60 again, but she’s not one of those gum-snapping tootsies some of the other guys on the floor favor. (Last year Nofziger went and married his! Man, did people talk!) I prefer Betty. Unea was a “kokua” or helper, leaving his wife and family behind in the 1890s to care for his teenage son who had been sent to Kalaupapa. Appointed store manager, he was the settlement’s “lifeline” to the outside world. He also served as a teacher and later conducted the settlement’s first census in 1900..

The metal of the pocket watch was deeply influenced by the late evening sunset. I setup this still life out back on our deck when the sun was burning like an orange flamed copper disk, about a ¼ up from the western horizon. Too bad I had a cheap camera, my reference photo pixelated out above 800 x 600 pixels.

I too have a few Molnija or Molnia or Marathon (as marketed in the US and Canada) they are easy to aquire, but the one drawback is the winding stems seem cheap and can break easily. I have one Molnija from 1968 that is an openface pendent set model 3602 that has a high grade regulator that is way different than all those pictured here. I buy mine from europe and not from North American sellers as over in Europe they go for 10 bucks and have CCCP and not USSR stamped on them.

He waited to nightfall, then ended up in the cemetery, where Vicki and her stoner friends like to get high. Fortunately for us, but not for her, Jeremy had already bolted – he was angry that Vicki stole the pain pills Elena had been given after the car accident. (Finding pleasure in anything related to his parents’ death, Vicki? Not cool.) Damon drank from Vicki, and went back for seconds.

The other best-known type of timepiece has an electronic movement. Electronic movements have few, if any, moving parts and rely on batteries. They use tiny quartz crystals that oscillate at very stable frequencies to ensure considerably more accuracy than mechanical movements.

They typically can be personalized with title (such as Best Man or Groomsman), recipient’s name, and bride and groom’s name, and wedding date. There is a lot of engraving real estate on a bat so you can fit a lot of information on there. Baseballs are also good for saying a lot in terms of personalization.


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