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mahgnolias · 1 year
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Picnics by the water 💕
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subpixie420 · 7 months
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Went to a winery today with my girl and my barbie, Nahèma🍷
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x-bluefire-heart-x · 6 months
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Looks and Wine
Okay guys here is chapter six! This one focus' more on Viper's relationship with Liv and Amanda, only a little interaction between Viper and Rafael.
Also, not sure if I mentioned this previously but I don't plan on adhering to the timeline of the show overly much. There will be some cannon events but they will happen slightly differently, particularly in terms of timeline.
Warnings: None, that I can think of.
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Tag List: @profoundtyrantharmony , @wanniiieeee , @zizzlekwum , @petemitchells
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You looked up at the sound of Rafael’s voice and grinned when he caught your eye. He smiled back before focusing back on Olivia, though you thought his eyes drifted over to you every now and then. Liv was giving an update regarding the current case and the need for a warrant for a possible suspects financials. In the several days since the two of you had been to the prison another victim had turned up, only this time there was a hit on his DNA, which allowed the team to trace his movements and finally get some answers. The latest victim had been a proud bisexual man who had last used his credit card at one of the gay bars in the city. Security footage showed him walking out, with his arm around another man, thankfully the suspect had used a credit card to pay for the last round of drinks.
“I honestly didn’t believe you when you said you and Rafael had sorted your shit out,” Amanda’s voice startled you, forcing you to realise that you hadn’t looked away from said man since he walked in. “But looks like there could be some different tension?”
“Shut it you,” you blushed. “There certainly won’t be. I was merely thinking and happened to be looking in that general area.”
“Uh-huh, a sloppy excuse if I ever heard one,” Finn joined in on the teasing. “Gonna make Nick jealous.”
“What?” you looked at Finn confused. “Why would Nick be jealous?”
“I think you me and Liv need to have some drinks tonight,” Amanda answered patting you on the shoulder before walking away leaving you even more confused.
“Finn,”
“Come on Viper, you aren’t blind, you’ve seen how Nick has been with you lately,” Finn pointed out.
“I mean yeah, but he’s kinda like that with most people, he is a caring person,” you countered. “You said he hovered a little with Liv after, you know.”
“He did but the looks-”
“What looks?” You asked, waving your hands.
Finn was about to answer when Liv and Rafael walked over. Liv stopped at Finn’s desk but Rafael continued to yours and perched on the edge swiping some of the chocolate covered almonds you had in a container. You rolled your eyes at his thieving and flicked his thigh. As this was happening Nick walked into the room, pausing at seeing Rafael on your desk grinning smugly down at you while you looked up at him, the softest look of annoyance on your face he had ever seen. He felt a sharp stab in his chest, as he took in the situation, hands clenching.
“Hey,” Amanda nudged him, trying to force him to look away. “Nick, Liv and I talked to you about this. Rein it in. You know Viper doesn’t like being coddled or handled with kiddie gloves and they won’t stop being annoyed with you until you start to listen.”
“I know, I do,” Nick nodded.
“And you also can’t glare at Barba just because the two get along now,” Amanda grinned. Nick hung his head at her teasing, rolling his eyes the hard look leaving them when he looked back over and saw you looking at him. He smiled softly at you, chuckling a little as you raised an eyebrow looking between him and Amanda before smiling back.
“Oh Liv, apparently Amanda wants us to have drinks tonight,” you interrupted her and Finn’s conversation.
“Oh?” Liv asked. “Why?”
“Um…not sure,” your eyes shifted to Rafael before quickly looking back at her.
“Oh don’t be so coy Viper,” Finn grinned. “I think Amanda want’s to explain some looks-”
“I will stab you,” Viper growled interrupting Finn, pointing a finger at him and glaring.
“Detective,” Rafael’s voice was mock scolding. “That is a crime.”
“Justifiable,” you countered eyes going back to him, that same cheeky grin from the other day on your face.
“Hm, I could argue it,” Rafael nodded. “Carry on.” He snagged some more almonds before standing up. “I’ll get you those warrants.”  As he walked away Liv looked between the two of you, saw Nick and Amanda on the other side of the room near the coffee, looked back at Finn and then finally rested her eyes on you.
“Oh, I see. You, me and Amanda are definitely doing drinks,” she laughed walking into Cragen’s office to give him an update. Leaving you to groan and drop your head onto your desk.
“I hate all of you.”
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“Oi Counsellor, got us those warrants yet?” You asked strolling into his office without a knock on the door.
“No, please just walk right on in Detective,” Rafael said without looking up, his voice dry as he waved his hand dismissively.
“Door was open,” you shrugged. Nick trailed in behind you.
“I see manners are still something you lack,” Rafael sighed finally looking up and glaring at you. “Open doors are not an open invitation.”
“Calm down Barba,” Nick muttered. Rafael shifted his gaze to Nick, the playfulness of the glare leaving slightly as he noticed Nick was not joining in with the teasing.
“We’re teasing Nick,” you nudged him rolling your eyes at his seriousness. “Relax it’s all in good fun now.”
Nick looked at you jaw clenching before he sighed nodding and accepting it for now. He truly did want to get things back to how they were between the two of you, before that night you got slightly drunk and cried on his shoulder. He thought the two of you had shared a moment and over breakfast the following morning he felt a connection even some tension, and he had wanted to try and build off of that but maybe he had over stepped too much with you. He had just been concerned, he had never seen you so vulnerable and it made his protectiveness flare, all he had wanted to do was look after you and make it better. He honestly should have known better after Maria. He knew he needed to take a few steps back, and wait for you to come to him if you needed anything.
“And those warrants are right there,” Rafael pointed to a folder sitting on the left side of the desk. “You have access to the financials of one Andrew Moore. I also have a warrant waiting to be signed for DNA and all electronic devices once you can put him in the same vicinity as any other victim.”
“Very efficient Mr Barba,” you said picking up the folder and checking over the warrant before looking back up at him. “We’ll definitely be back, maybe even with a profile.” You winked at him when he groaned and rolled his eyes.
“Of course you will be,” he muttered watching as you walked out of his office with Nick trailing behind. He stopped for a minute waiting to ensure you had left before turned back to Rafael. “Something else detective?”
“You changed your tune with Viper fairly quickly,” Nick said his hands in the pockets of his pants.
“And that is a problem is it?” Rafael asked his defences up. “I was under the impression that everyone wanted the two of us to start getting along.”
“No, it’s no problem,” Nick shrugged. “Just curious, the two of you are getting along quite well. Let’s hope it continues.”
“Detective, I do not see how any of this has to do with you,” Rafael said with a hard edge to his voice. “And I suggest you leave it be, it is between Viper and myself.”
“It is my business if you hurt them, again,” Nick argued, he was about to continue when he heard your voice calling out.
“Nick, we need to get going,” you called out coming back into the annex of Rafael’s office smiling at Carmen who was returning to her desk. “We need to get these back, it’ll take a while before all the finances are gathered so we need to get it rolling.”
“Coming Viper,” Nick turned away from Rafael ignoring him completely in favour of returning to your side. Rafael watched as you good naturedly shoved his arm, complaining about keeping you waiting and trying to get out of him what the two of you were discussing your voice echoing down the hallway.
Rafael sighed not liking how he had reacted to Nick’s statements about how quickly he and Viper had turned around your relationship nor did he like or appreciate how Nick had implied that he would hurt Viper. Again. Rafael couldn’t quite put a name to the initial flare of emotion but it had quickly become anger. And that was not something Rafael had expected, Nick and he had bumped heads and disagreed before but never had Rafael felt anger towards the detective. Nor had he ever felt whatever that first emotion was, or the one that followed as he watched Viper and Nick interact. It seemed he and Viper weren’t the only ones to quickly change the tone of their relationship. Last he had heard you and Nick had been at odds, with how overbearing the detective had been recently but it appeared as though that was on the mends, at least on the way to being mended.
“Mr Barba,” Carmen’s voice interrupted his musings. “You’re 3 o’clock is here.”
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You opened the door to your apartment with the biggest put on sigh you could manage. Amanda and Olivia stood on the other side bottles of wine and cheese and dips, and grins that told you nothing good would come of this evening.
“No, absolutely not,” you muttered opening the door wider to let them both in. “Leave the goods and get out.”
“Ha ha, you are so amusing,” Amanda rolled her eyes as she took over your kitchen as if it were her own. Grabbing three wine glasses and the cheese board, as Liv started opening the cheeses and dips placing them on the board.
“Catch,” Liv threw the boxes of crackers at you.
You had situated yourself on the couch watching as your two friends invaded your kitchen not bothering to help since they had invited themselves over and you just knew there would be teasing. You caught them easily enough, opening them just as the other two come over and took a seat either side of you. Amanda passed you a glass of wine, placing the bottles on the table, you gulped down one mouthful.
“Alright, what is this about?” you muttered.
“Right to it, don’t want to have some causal conversation first?” Liv asked taking some cheese.
“Would rather not drag this out,” you sighed.
“You are no fun Viper,” Amanda said flicking your shoulder. “This is about you, Nick and Rafael.”
“And I have no idea what you meant by looks,” you pointed out leaning forward to grab some dip on a cracker. Amanda and Liv shared a look over you head before you sat back. “So please, inform me.”
“Let’s start with Nick,” Amanda said. “What happened that night we all went drinking? Things have been off between you and Nick since then.”
“I may have broken down a little,” you admitted sipping your wine. “I maybe felt a little something when he comforted me but I didn’t know what to do with that and I had never felt it before and I was drunk and then he stayed the night, nothing happened, he slept on the couch and made me breakfast in the morning.”
“That’s sweet,” Liv said.
“Yeah, I thought so as well, and I guess whatever that spark was before it came back and I really didn’t know how to handle it but I thought it might go away, I mean I didn’t think I was leading Nick on,” you continued. “I mean, I really hope I didn’t-”
“You didn’t, the way you acted with Nick didn’t change,” Amanda said through some cheese and crackers. “I mean you did start acting cold towards him.”
“Yeah, because the dude just took the shining knight thing to serious,” you groused. “I mean, look I really appreciate knowing that he, and all you care, and want to make sure I was okay but sometimes he is a bit much. Like, because I had a breakdown I suddenly can’t do my job or – or I don’t know.”
“We can all agree that Nick is intense, especially when he cares about someone,” Liv agreed. “Hopefully, he takes the steps back he said he would.”
“Wait, you talked to him about his?” you asked glancing from Liv to Amanda. “Both of you?”
“Maybe, we both noticed and you and Rafael were still at odds and we knew that having more tension in the team wouldn’t be good,” Liv said. “We also knew that you don’t like being crowded. You come to us for help when you need it. And I think Nick needed reminding of that fact.”
“He definitely needed reminding,” Amanda scoffed. “And he seems to be trying.”
“I hate this,” you whine. “And he does, well, he did. Until we went to Rafael’s office, we bantered and Nick seemed agitated about it. And he stayed back for a minute or two to talk with Rafael. He wouldn’t tell me about what.”
“Hm, yes, Rafael,” Liv grinned. “That is something else.”
“What? We dealt with our shit,” you said leaning forward to refill your wine, offering the same to the other two before swiping up a few more crackers and pieces of cheese.
“Hm, yes, seems like you two are now getting along very well,” Amanda giggled, sipping more wine.
“How did you two work things out?” Liv asked curious. “I know it happened when the two of you went to the prison.”
“I had another panic attack,” you started. “He helped me through it and I don’t know even before that it seemed to be better, he bought us lunch that we could eat on the way it was…I talked about my time undercover and he, he didn’t look at me differently.”
“Why would he?” Amanda asked confused.
“There are things that only Liv knows, Amanda,” you said softly. “About the things I did. Well, Liv and my psych and now I guess Rafael.”
“It’s okay Viper,” Amanda squeezed your arm. “If you ever want someone else. Well, I am here.”
“Thanks, Manda,” you leaned against her briefly before sitting straight.
“Anything else happen on that trip?” Liv pressed.
“Well, I mean we interviewed Cooper, I reacted as one might expect when we left and he comforted me again,” you smiled softly eyes going soft as you remembered the warmth of his hand on your arm. “And he reassured me that how I felt was normal and didn’t change who I was as a person. We then…well, we bantered a little and it just seemed to click.”
“And you felt something else?” Amanda teased. “Maybe a spark?”
“Why would you think that?!” you questioned, voice going up a little in pitch as you felt a flutter inside.
“Because of the looks,” Amanda was almost exasperated in her answer. “Just today you could barely keep your eyes off of him. And the way you looked at him, well, I have never seen you look at anyone like that.”
“I don’t look at him in any way,” you protested.
“Viper, you protest too much I think,” Liv laughed. “And you do by the way. On top of that I have never seen you argue with someone the way you did with Rafael. It was very sparky.”
“Sparky?” you asked. “I don’t think I have ever heard you use that word before.”
“But it is accurate,” Amanda agreed. “The minute you two met there was a spark. And sometimes when people don’t want to acknowledge certain things they can react in the opposite way. There was a spark of attraction so when you ignored it, it came out as frustration instead.”
You bit your lip staring into the wine in your glass as you took in what Amanda and Liv were telling you. You knew there was a spark, a feeling that came up every time you saw Rafael, every time you argued with him and now every time you were in the same room as him. Amanda was right, you just didn’t want to acknowledge it. And Liv was right you were protesting too much. But you just couldn’t and didn’t want to deal with it, you and Rafael had only just gotten to a friendly stage and to even think of anything beyond that was, just not something you could think of.
“Say, you two are right,” you started. “Say I did feel a spark with Rafael, then what about the spark I felt with Nick, I mean I was drunk and I don’t think I have felt anything since the morning after.”
“There is a chance it was just an effect of the alcohol, your argument with Rafael and the fact that Nick was there when you were vulnerable,” Liv explains, refilling everyone’s wine glasses again, it was definitely that kind of night. “Are you sure you haven’t felt anything?”
“Yes, I definitely haven’t felt anything for Nick. Even before he became overbearing, I mean before that night I didn’t feel any spark,” you shrugged, “He is attractive no doubt about that but there isn’t anything.”
“Then there is nothing to worry about,” Amanda answered. “Nick is a big boy he can handle it.”
“You mean you’ll help?” you teased.
“No, little bit like you in that regard,” Amanda laughed.  “Attractive but I don’t think I could do the knight in shining amor thing either.”
“Hm, poor Nick,” you cooed. “The man just needs someone who wants a shining knight and protective man. Now enough about me.”
“No!” Amanda complained. “We need to talk more about you and Rafael. You deserve a bit of happiness, Viper and honestly so does Rafael.”
“And Rafi needs someone like you,” Liv added. “Someone who keeps him on his toes and can banter with him.”
“Ugh!” you threw back the rest of your wine and pouted, cheeks completely puffed out and your arms crossed. Liv laughed as she took your glass and refilled it again. You all had tomorrow off baring an emergency in the case as the suspects financials were still being dug out for Amanda to go through.
“Alright fine,” Amanda agreed. “I have nothing new in my life.”
“I think Cassidy and I are going to break up,” Liv stated causing you and Amanda to turn your heads to her in such a speed she almost worried your necks would snap.
“What? Why?” Amanda asked.
“Did he do something? I swear they won’t find a body,” you promised.
“Viper! Jesus, death and violence should not be your first response,” Liv laughed, you rolled your eyes knowing she secretly loved that you reacted like that.
“I don’t know, some instances it’s right,” Amanda argued. “But back to the point.”
“We don’t seem to be in sync anymore and I don’t think he thinks about the future with me,” she said, her voice was sad. “I want to think about kids but he, I don’t think he does and I don’t know if I should bring it up or how I would.”
“Liv, I’m sorry,” Amanda moved to sit on the arm of the couch wrapping her arm around Liv’s shoulder. You squeezed her arm, even though you didn’t like Cassidy you knew that Liv loved him that he had been there for her during the aftermath of Lewis. You could see Liv finally letting her walls down as she stopped pretending.
“After Lewis I think, I think it was then that things started to slowly change,” Liv continued. “But since I become a Sargeant we’ve been missing each other even more. It’s been difficult.”
“Oh Liv, I’m sure it isn’t anything either of you have done,” you said. “But you should talk to him.”
“I know, we’re planning on meeting up tomorrow for dinner,” she sighed. “I think he wants to have a talk as well. I think IAB isn’t agreeing with him either, I hope he finds what he is looking for. I truly do.”
“Of course, that’s the kind of person you are Liv,” Amanda said lightly kissing her on the cheek. You had all shuffled along on the couch, with Liv now in the middle and allowing Amanda to have a seat properly. “Kind, caring and always wants the best for the people you care about.”
“Hm, too true!” you cheered holding your glass out, a cheeky giggle leaving you. “Especially, when you get to tease those people while setting them straight!”
“I don’t tease all of them,” Liv argued.
“Oh, well, just me then? How lovely,” you teased, poking your tongue out when Liv huffed in false annoyance.
“She teases Rafael as well,” Amanda grinned leaning around Liv, her arm still around her shoulder. “See, the two of have even more in common.”
“Oh god I thought we had left that entire…thing behind!” you whined.
“Not a chance Viper,” Liv tacked on. “It’s rare for us to have something to constantly tease you over.”
“Yes, and you can’t deny that you like him!” Amanda sang. “When you first saw him, before he pissed you off, you paused and your eyes roved up and down his body.”
“That did not happen,” you pointed your finger at her.
“I was there Viper, you can’t lie to me,” Amanda said turning to Liv. “Seriously, you should have see it, our Viper almost swooned. They took a moment to say anything after I first introduced them. Never seen them like that before nor how they reacted to Rafael refuting their profile.”
“You should have recorded that!” Liv laughed. “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me that before. Viper, that is adorable.”
“You know, I meant it as a joke earlier when I said I hate you all,” Viper muttered. “But now I mean it. You had better not mention any of this to Finn, he will never leave it alone and the two of you are enough. And don’t you dare ask Rafael about it!”
“Oh I so am,” Liv promised.
“Won’t tell Finn…but come on Viper, the guy is a shark with stuff like this he will sniff it out and then never leave you alone anyway,” Amanda pointed out grabbing some more cheese.
“Stupid detective being too good,” you said. “You guys want food food?”
The other two nodded and you decided on ordering pizza, the perfect food for drinking. These were the nights you missed the most when you had been undercover, drinking and just talking with your team. Sometimes it would be like tonight where it is only you three, sometimes all of you or any other mix of the team. The three of you continued drinking, eating and chatting until midnight and even a little after. Of course they continued to tease you about Rafael and you took it good naturedly, finding that it helped a little with the feelings that…appeared when you were near Rafael or even when you thought of him. But still, that wasn’t something you wanted to think too much on or deal with at that moment wanting to work on your friendship with the man. You thought that it would be a very good friendship.
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Wine & cheese
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Wine Whining
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Wine Whining
July 28, 2015
   Ain’t it great? Every year we get more down to earth and a few sacred cows topple in the dust. It seems that recently the laws of wine worship have been revoked and we’re blowing the whistle on the holy mystique of the nectars of Bacchus.
   Confess: Didn’t you fear your taste buds had an I.Q. of 70 when the experts swished a mouthful, rolled their eyes and babbled about hints of chocolate and licorice bark and a finish of coffee on your red wine? Who put that stuff in your wine?
   He: “Darling, the overtones of battery acid in this Pinot Noir are so subtle as to be scarcely perceptible.”
   She: “Oh, and the delicate suggestion of nail polish in this Merlot is so understated, it’s scarcely a breath. I’m glad we let it age for seventeen years to bring its intellectual sophistication in balance with the gentle whimsy of its fruitiness.”
   Out in Kelowna, the heart of British Columbia’s white hot wine industry, radio hosts chat about the valley’s bottled gold. They’re going, “Hey, it’s a business, and it’s a drink, and let’s not be so snooty.”
   Says one, “According to the experts, this cabernet Alicia must be drunk in a cabernet glass to bring out its full bouquet.”
   And who thought up that one? The people who make stemmed crystal, of course.
   The other comes back, “But we put wine on too much of a pedestal. At the end of the day, just shut up and drink it.”
   Stop talking and drink it? I’m on board.
   It’s no longer a requirement to wrestle with a corkscrew and then pass the cork around to sniff. Recent yuppie vintages come in a handy screw top and you can plunk the bottle on the table without fear of the butler’s giving notice. If you’re really brave, leave the price sticker on or brag about how cheap you got it in that little strip mall next to Wal-Mart.
   Who performed the great service to serious drinkingkind everywhere by tying the grape gourmand to a pillar and tickling him with a wine cellar feather duster until he spilled his guts about the breathing of red wine?
   “Tee hee, well, it started as a joke over beers—tee hee, oh stop, you’re killing me—and then everybody believed it and we didn’t know how to—tee hee, please stop and I’ll confess…”
   Seems a group of wine experts with post-graduate palates tasted four bottles of the same red wine. One bottle sat open for an hour, one was decanted for an hour, one was decanted and poured, and the last was opened and poured. The Ph.D Palates went for number four.
   Well, bless me if the wine industry isn’t as rife with naked emperors as cyberspace with nasty viruses. Red wine breathes? I guess we all looked that stupid, huh? It’s a bottle of fermented fruit juice, at bottom. Liquids do not breathe. Liquids exist to be drunk by humans, who do breathe.
   I do get it about clearing the palate between varietals. It gives you a chance to indulge in another great fermented food, this one in solid form. There must be as many cheeses as wines out there, all ready to be praised to the heavens in glorious, grandiose verbal cascades.
   So let’s not lose all the fun. Before this dandy one-upmanship passes into antiquity, raise the bar. Throw a classic wine and cheese tasting party and mandate that everybody get in touch with his pretentious side. Include two 4 x 6 file cards with the invitation. When guests bring their wine and cheese offerings for the occasion, they must bring a high-toned description of each. Give points and an extra pouring for hyperbole, alliteration and over-the-top verbosity. Award more points and a take-home bottle for the guest who is voted the biggest talent for pretentious prattle.
   And no cuspidors. No one is allowed to treat these elevated beverages like Listerine mouthwash. Why let the fruit ferment and then not get a little buzz? You have to swallow, so when the imbibing begins, the airs will flow as fast as the drinks.
   Don’t limit the grandiosity to the goodies. Call for a dress code. Insist on formal jeans, or maybe hats and gloves…any kind. Encourage your guests to indulge their sense of the ridiculous and the sublime, from Moody Blue and Cheez Whiz on Ritz crackers to champagne and Brie.
   Pop, pour, and party on.
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fallensapphires · 1 year
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Food: Wine
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, and makes weariness forget his toil.
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timmurleyart · 2 years
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Le chef mouse. 🐁🇫🇷🥖🍞🥐
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fa-dubu · 7 months
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real petty moaning and whinging but i'm watching 'letters from a strange woman' in eng on yt after playing it in jpn, but it's pretty obvious that eng!kafka speaks with a subdued/softer tone to blade right? she sounded just as conversational with blade in jpn as she does with stelle during the quest so it makes me think eng!hsr is trying to push a particular dynamic?
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Wine and cheese picnic in the mountains!
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mahgnolias · 1 year
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Picnic by the water ✨
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life-spire · 2 years
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@ Nati Melnychuk
See more like this.
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