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DARLING SISTER GROUP TEXT

-- Hi.
-- In case you weren't getting weird shared triplet pain, I wanted to let you know that Leo and I are going to the hospital.
-- I know it's early/late, so I'm sorry about that.
-- But apparently these kids wanted to get a head start on keeping me up forever.
-- I say that as though I have been sleeping properly for months.
-- Anyway.
-- 👍

[sent at 10:25AM]

-- Sorry, guys.
-- I just really want to not be pregnant. 😭

STELLA

My ex and I are sharing dreams.

JUN

These dreams are the worst, man.

ELIJAH

Busy tonight?

Oof. I feel like I got my ass handed to me while I slept last night and I know for a fact that one of you is to blame. So just think about that if you're Dreaming about one of those people who thinks it's fun to force people to build the sort of muscle in a week that should have taken like six months. 😭 You're a masochist and I hope you feel hella guilty.

JULES

Does it ever bother you when you remember how much we hate each other in that other life?

[ABBY, TESSA, AND LEO]

Household meeting time.

What are your thoughts/feelings about expanding our household by one fiancé and two cats?

Hi, everyone! Another post so soon? Thanks to Naomi's brilliant idea, I'm going to put together a resource accessible to anyone dealing with the Dreams that essentially just lists who is being dreamed of and any other pertinent details you might think need to be included for others to identify that they're at least sharing dreams about the world even if they don't know the name. For example, it might look like:

Leia Organa-Solo - From Alderaan, daughter of Breha and Bail Organa
Han Solo - Made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, from Corellia

Just leave a note here, anonymously or not, letting me know the name of who you are dreaming about and anything else you want to mention. If you want YOUR name attached to it, as well, for shared dreamers to more easily get in touch with you, let me know. Otherwise, I'll attach your Anon ID so that others can filter you anonymously!

This is totally optional, but I hope you'll consider doing it, at least anonymously!

All right, my friends, this one can relate to the Dreams, or just your life here. Commenter's choice! Anonymously, or not anonymously, tell me what song--or songs--is stuck in your head or on repeat on your Spotify playlists. Drop a link, share lyrics, whatever you want. And feel free to provide context, or not. Anything goes. I just want to know what's currently on your soundtrack.

Raise a hand if you're about to binge watch Carnival Row on Amazon. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

For the record, Dunhaven, moving from the city that you lived in since you were a teenager and then putting your daughter on the bus for her first day of middle school is more emotion fuel than anyone should really volunteer for in the span of a week. I am not a fragile lady, but right now I have plenty of feelings, all of which have me wanting to pull out kid pictures at any given moment to show complete strangers on the street.

[...] And here's the pictures. Maybe if I show it off here, I won't show unsuspecting folks just wanting to go into the grocery store. ( Cut for image! )

My kid is the best kid.

And so, hello there! I'm Jules Hart. I was sent access to this network almost immediately after moving in, so I thought I ought to check it out and be a bit more emotionally honest than I'm normally into. Go big or go home, right?

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DARLINGS

There's something I haven't told the two of you that I probably should have the moment I realized it after we'd settled in here and I really hope you won't be too upset with me that I haven't? Because you love me? Triplet law?

M lives here. I didn't know he was from Dunhaven.

THEO

I [...] have a confession to make that should probably be done in person, but I'm a coward but I hope you'll forgive me for saying it here, instead.

[OOC: This is still Tessa. She just has a new journal and canon, lol.]

In case you didn't already know, today is the most special of days because, on this day many years ago, the one and only Everett Marshall was born. Since they have yet to acknowledge my petition to make the celebration of his birth a national holiday, I'm taking it upon myself to invite all of you Dunhavenians to help me honor this wonderful, beautiful, compassionate, and all-around standup guy by coming in to Stella's today for one of two specials.

The first is the #boyfriend which is two liege waffles topped with Nutella, fresh berries, whipped cream, cookie butter, and chocolate drizzle.

The second is the Birthday Babe which is a large waffle boat with birthday cake, two large scoops of whipped cream, strawberry and chocolate drizzle, chopped pecans, celebratory sprinkles, and two cherries on top.

Better yet, 100% of profits from these two specials will be donated to Voices for Virginia's Kids in Everett's name. ❤️

So please come see us! And even if you're not feeling Stella's Famous Waffles today, don't forget to wish this handsome man the happiest birthday. 😊😊

[tw - sibling loss]

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FRIENDS & FAMILY

This might be a bit belated, but I didn't really want to say anything until I knew that things were going to for sure happen. When Theresa and I first bought this place, it was with the intent that it would be a starter home. Any of you that have been over here know it's not the biggest of houses and with Zoe getting older and the dog not getting any smaller, we're outgrowing it. We probably actually outgrew it a few years ago, truth be told but I.

Anyway, all that to say that I've spent the summer working with a realtor and we found a place. My offer was accepted last night and Zoe has already picked out her bedroom, so we're as good as moved in. I'm going to hang onto the current house and rent it for a while, but we're hoping to close by the end of August. The place is over on Westover, so close to the Winters and the rest of the Wolfes. I liked growing up over there, so it seems fitting for Zoe to do the same. Plus, it will make it easier for Mom to do her surprise visits, which I'm sure she'll appreciate. It's a weird time of year to be doing this with school starting up and [...] everything else, but that's how it works out sometimes.

Anyway. Just wanted to let you guys know that I'll be hiring skilled box carriers in the near future. Can't promise the pay is great, though.

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WHO: Tessa Darling & Theo Wolfe
WHEN: Saturday, April 13, 2019; Evening
WHERE: Auberge du Vieux-Port; Viuex-Montreal, QC
SUMMARY: Tessa & Theo have a mini-vacation and take the next step in their relationship.
WARNINGS: Mentions of spousal loss.

( I like to think there’s room in this relationship for all of it, just as I think that it’s okay to have something that belongs just to us, too. )

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I have an idea. And maybe the first part of the idea is to admit to you that I'm sharing memories with someone I thought was fictional. Lily Evans Potter lives in my head. I think by now it's probably a reality that most of us on the network (and maybe in the town?) have these memories. It isn't up to me to understand why. That's not my thing.

What I'd like to do is give you a spot to tell your story. I'm a writer -- honestly, I'm just a really bad unpublished poet -- but I spend my day taking care of my parents. We've got a really big living room. There's space out back. What I'm proposing is something akin to a writer's salon. You could come over, no questions asked. We'd have set times where we could gather.

You can talk to people? But most of all, you can write down your experiences. We can collect them physically or on GoogleDocs. I'm a democratic soul and am happy to take a straight up vote. But what I really want to get down to is by telling our stories, we might help other people. We might make it easier for them to live with these memories and emotions inside them. What I'm thinking (and hoping) is that this is meant to connect us. So, instead of living with trauma and I don't know ... shame? We can work it out together.

Would anyone be interested? Or should I shut up forever?

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Anonymous thoughts and commenters welcome!

WOLFE, MARLOW, & WINTERS FAMS + TESSA + CATY

I started to have the vague worry that whatever is happening to all of us with the other lives we're dreaming and experiencing might somehow latch itself onto Zoe. I asked her about it this morning in the best way I thought I could without really alarming her and she didn't seem to know what I was talking about. She's a smart kid, so I think that if it was happening, she would have connected the dots there. But, I told her that if she does have tough or strange dreams that she should come to me or another grown up she trusts, which I figured could be any of you.

Basically, if you recognize her mentioning anything odd or peculiar when you might be spending time with her or babysitting, I know that I probably don't have to actually ask you to tell me? But I wanted to let you know that it's on my radar and I'd appreciate the other eyes and ears.