It feels like a thaw out there
Dec. 27th, 2016 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWhich would be funnier if we'd ever had a freeze, or if it wasn't midwinter.
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