this guy’s<\/a> resemblance, but still):<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/gilpoleon.jpg?w=400\")
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Sigh. She plans on sending it to all of her friends who haven’t met me yet, to show them what a catch her future husband is.<\/p>\n
Update: Shut up! I turned out to be all decent-looking and stuff! See? Even if I did have bad facial hair. . .<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/giltignz.jpg?w=525\"\/)
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Last week, I was over at my dad’s, going through old photographs. There were some great ones of Dad as a child, as well as a gorgeous pic of his parents’ wedding (naturally, before he was a child), and other shots of him with his brothers, as kids and adults. But did Amy want to … <\/p>\n
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