We Have the Greatest Friends.

As our departure quickly approaches and we make piles of clothes and flipflops and things - some of our amazing friends have taken a few moments and sent us email words of encouragement and love. I couldn't help but repost them here because they were such pieces of sunshine in this snow covered tundra I'm writing from. Thank you for being amazing friends!
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"and though it's not much, it moved me to put together a small, 7-track EP for you. I know that I will listen to it often in the coming months, and think of you both.

Since I'm sure you have enough people telling you to be careful and safe and eat plenty of penicillin and wipe your hands from the dirty continent, I can focus on a different and obviously more important message, which is to do the opposite of all of those things. It's an adventure, dammit, so treat it like one. I hope they have gin there (whiskey might be asking too much). I, for one, am envious of the opportunity you two have carved out for yourselves and am sure that, one way or another, it will make you into better people than you are now (which for me is a little like trying to figure out the square root of a negative integer). Even if you DO actually wipe your hands.

105 is my favorite. I love you. Have a wonderful journey.

P.S. I have the strangest feeling I just quoted Donna Lewis."

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"finally, you better have booty called a ex in Indiana because you are not allowed to have sex in africa. end of story.

oh man, are you missed around here? seriously, the office is not the same without you. but don't think about that! there is a world of adventure they awaits you. live it up while you are there, and don't say no! see everything you can see, do everything you can do and be everywhere you can be.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." ~ Abe Lincoln"

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I know you are getting more and more excited about Africa... Your life is seriously about to change forever! This will be an experience you will never forget.