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Hey, Susanne M. Murphy, what would you have changed about your wedding day: “Probably the timing … 2 p.m. in Moscow, Idaho, on May 18, 1980. By the time the ceremony started - a planned outdoor wedding - we were in complete darkness. Trapped for three days in ash in our tiny home with my born-again foster mother from California, my alcoholic beloved girlfriend from California, several couples who couldn’t get back to Coeur d’Alene and my three teenage daughters. Hmmm. We never made it to our honeymoon in Banff and we finally divorced. My husband was studying geology and I had just completed a soil science degree. We should have known something was up when the volcano blew up for us.”
Slice answer: Pat and Kevin Shelley say the Indian Canyon Apartments is a great place to see a variety of out-of-state license plates.
He thought they would ax the little people: “Didn’t you explain to these outside consultants handling the restructure who I was?” - executive in a William Hamilton cartoon
Image and women’s magazines: “The new creature who emerges from these pages is crafted after her own image. No longer defined by an idea of what men expect of her, she doesn’t perceive her body as being separated from her mind. She is all spirit - and pure contradiction. Athletic and sexy. Seriously frivolous. A heart of gold with buns of steel. In retrospect, the old male version of the feminine ideal was much more forgiving than this new virtual-reality female paragon.” - San Francisco Examiner Magazine
Note to the ex-Californian who griped about local merging habits: “At least we boobs behind the wheel here don’t shoot people who don’t merge to our specs.” - J. Brown
Today’s Slice question: If the Inland Northwest had a big city, what would it be like?
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