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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Back when I was a starter wife I lived in Westchester for a few years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ahh, the things you do for love.</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">That was back when everyone around me owned a Lexus LS, Tiffany jewelry, the same style Movado watch and a Nextel phone that went <em><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">click click</span></em> on my frickin nerves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yea, real independent thinkers there.</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">I've since moved back home to Manhattan, began a different life and very seldom look back at the time I like to call "Duh, you married a Teamster!"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Except when I come across the photos I had to fight my second husband in order to keep... and then I stroll down memory lane. It's usually pleasant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Strolling through the few years in suburbia when I carried kate spade is one thing. Putting on a DVF dress and walking right back into it is another thing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Even years after my suburban life came crashing down; I feel stress at the thought of going back there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Back into what I have worked so very hard to move on from.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">I always knew the day (or night) would come when I'd have to socialize in Westchester again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">So tonight, I'm going back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">It's been years. I didn't exactly leave Westchester the ideal way. And I definitely have some feelings about the people and place that taught me some fine life lessons.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">But because my Maid of Honor is a dear friend and still lives there, I'll be there tonight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Scar tissue and all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">I keep wondering if I will see people from my old life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">And if they will be kind when they see the extra twenty pounds that have joined me in my new life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Wish me luck. Tonight I'm moving backwards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Except this time, I'm carrying Marc Jacobs and wearing YSL.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia"><span style="color:#444444">Want to follow me on this amazing road trip I call my life? Subscribe to the Veep Veep <a href="http://www.veepveep.com/feed/">RSS Feed</a></span></span><span style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Can't wait until I check in again from the road? Follow me on </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #17418f; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/veepveep"><span style="color: #17418f;">Twitter</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.25pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Next stop –</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"> Tomorrow will be spent in Chelsea Market and the Meat Packing district for most of the day. Expect some interesting tweets.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 14.25pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Car Song</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"> – "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6_sZd3viG8">Salvation</a></span><span style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;">" by The Cranberries "Inject your soul with liberty -- its free."</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p>

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