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The Daily Whistle Stops, Issue #128. (5/8/18)
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Thames for featuring my post! I hope it is a good introduction to crypto for people who don't understand that it has much more potential than magic money and loyalty tokens...
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Thanks for including my mushroom post and featuring my photo. I put the stick in a part of the garden so I could keep an eye on the mushrooms and my dog got the stick and ate all of the mushrooms off of it!! I'm glad I got a pic when I did! Ha. He seems fine though. Guess they smelled like food to him. I need to go hunting for some more.
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@lymepoet · 
Thank you for including my post in this curation. ;0)
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@katrina-ariel ·
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These are fantastic posts! Love this curation effort, bringing together quality content and amazing people. Off to read @jackdub's bedroll crafting post. That one caught my eye, even though I'm more a luxury-camper these days. ;)
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@arbitrarykitten · 
Thank you for the feature 💜
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