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Sunday, December 25, 2011

In Rome

Chestnuts roasting by an open fire ..... Happy Christmas

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Blue: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; An interior design history enthusiast and in my own way an erstwhile chronicler of those I call the Lost Generation - those men, some of them gay and many of whom died of AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, and who are to a great degree forgotten.

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