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Nov 14, 2022Liked by Robyn Ryle

Not only adorable then!

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Thanks, Ruth!

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Nov 14, 2022Liked by Robyn Ryle

Glad you included the smile and coat! I'll be looking for both.

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Looks like lots of winter coat weather in our forecast, so strong chance you'll be seeing it soon!

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My Asperger's made smiling difficult for decades. When social interaction stimulates high anxiety, smiling doesn't come automatically. Maybe that's why I enjoyed living in India so much. There's very little smiling at all, unless you're laughing. Seems right to me.

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Producing a smile on demand is hard on lots of folks, I think.

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I smiled so much while reading this! I could relate and always wondered if I’d ever get laugh lines (for some reason I’ve always found the smartest women I look up too like Fatima Bhutto so beautiful because of their laugh lines and secretly wish I’d end up looking just as beautiful when I am older).

P.S. you have a really beautiful smile, teeth or no teeth. :)

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Oh, thank you so much, Maliha. Glad the post made you smile!

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A very belated thank you for the shout-out, Robyn! As for your essay, you hit on a subject that is very close to my heart. If I had a dollar for every time some one (usually my mother or a man) said "smile" I'd be rolling in the dough. I was a serious and self-conscious child and my parents were gregarious types as were most of their friends.

I truly love the idea that you are smiling not for others but for yourself. You have a fun smile, like someone's tickling you and you are trying not to laugh but there it is, the sparkle and the laugh surrounded by a wonderful furry coat.

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Yes, we would both be billionaires. My mother's favorite was, "You'd be so pretty if you'd just smile." Ugh.

That is the loveliest description of a smile I might have ever read. Thank you so much.

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