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From my iphone. Here's emma:




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  1. Anonymous4:40 PM

    Congratulations.iphoneblogwrite (maybe from now on I'll write only in URL-ese).

    Yeah, that pic is satisfactorily cute, but it doesn't adequately convey what a young beauty she is.

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  2. Anonymous7:48 PM

    Is she dating?

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  3. Unknown10:23 AM

    Gene,

    My daughter was born in 1998. Her mother & I decided we wanted to give her a beautiful yet rare name. We decided on Emma. Ten years later, we're drowning in little girls named Emma.

    Your daughter looks of a certain age that you may have had the same experience. Just curious.

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  4. gcallah12:07 PM

    Yep. We discovered, after naming her, that "Emma" was the second most popular name the year she was born ('99).

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  5. gcallah12:08 PM

    Oh, and Sydney, can you swim in the Gowanus canal? Can you do it wearing cement overshoes? Because this could be arranged.

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  6. TokyoTom6:30 AM

    Gene, you are blessed!

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