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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 14:30:29 GMT -5
I have a crap memory for names. Maybe Val does, too. FLAW!
"Alexei. Right."
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 14:33:51 GMT -5
"Oh, and I'm not floating anymore." *He said brightly.* "I talked to my father and we sorted it out."
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 16:52:33 GMT -5
"Man-to-man talks to sort things out?"
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:01:48 GMT -5
"Something like that. But now I can control the year I go to, too, so I don't just end up back in the stone age when I'm trying to get groceries for dinner." *He shuddered, remembering a particularly nasty incident.*
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:29:19 GMT -5
"What happened? 'Hi Maman, I hope you know how to roast a mastadon hindquarter.'?"
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:33:41 GMT -5
*He smiled and chuckled.*
"Woolly mammoth, actually." *He joked.*
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:35:00 GMT -5
"They're GREAT in a sauce with butter and shallots."
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:39:16 GMT -5
"I believe she did it in garlic butter and called it "Mammoth a la Eponine."
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:43:05 GMT -5
*Valerie snickered.*
"...Eponine Thenardier? I know that name...from somewhere..."
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:45:07 GMT -5
"Yeah... Hugo." *He said.*
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:46:09 GMT -5
"...Les Miserables?"
*She raised her eyebrows.*
"SHE'S your mom? I thought she died."
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:47:23 GMT -5
"Evidently not quite. But it's a really long story and she tells it a lot better than I do."
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:48:27 GMT -5
"...do you think she'd indulge me? I mean, I don't want to pry."
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Post by Alexei on Feb 12, 2008 17:50:03 GMT -5
"She'd be fine. Weirdly enough we don't get that many people hounding her about the book. I think they think it's an assumed name and she's not... actually who she is. Which she is."
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Post by Valerie on Feb 12, 2008 17:52:13 GMT -5
"I always assumed it was fictional...I mean, the details, not the overall revolution and such."
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