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#1: The Bettanys' Revenge Finished 24th June Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:47 pm
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"Mummy we've just left Auntie Madge's! Why do we have to have her here!?"

"Now Bride, you'll not be uncharitable to your young cousin will you?" Mollie Bettany looked at Bride's mutinous expression.

"You don't know what she was like! Ask Rix! Ask Peggy! Ask Jackie! She was so nasty!"

"Well, she's had a tough time recently, and her poor baby sister Josette still delicate."

"After an accident SHE caused!"

"Well it was an accident! Now, you listen to me Bridget! She's your cousin, whatever she's done and I'll have no more of this nonsense! What example are you setting to Maeve! Sybil will be a guest in this house and you will welcome her with open arms and that is an end to it young lady!"

Mollie Bettany was now fully roused by Bride's defiance and that young lady realised she had crossed the line where her mother was concerned. Bride slunk out of the kitchen door to sulk in the stone courtyard. It was one more black mark against Sybil Margaret Russell!

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Sybil, for her part was quaking with fear.

She could not go home for six months, a freak hurricane, Hurricane Thekla had demolished the Round House. She could not go to Auntie Joey's because:

A sudden inexplicable rush of illegal immigrant schoolgirls from New Zealand, Canada, France and Russia, all with problems and issues which only a saint could deal with had been bundled into Freuedesheim to feel the hypnotic influence of the triplets and Joey Maynard, reinforced by the brisk Dr Jack and his bizarre hydrotherapy methods for hysterical patients (thumping them and dunking their heads in ice cold water).

Neither could she go to any friends as the Chesters, Lucys and Ozannes were all suffering from the same form of dog or canine flu. Her other friends, Blossom Willoughby included were going to Christmas Island for a holiday. Her brother was staying with a friend near Ben Nevis and Josette was somewhere I cannot account for. Even the brevet Aunts were either out of the country or suffering from the highly infectious athlete's foot, and therefore in strict quarantine!

Quite where Mary Lou was at this stage is anybody's guess.

So, shaking with fear, poor Sybil was sentenced to life with the Bettanys. A cruel irony indeed for her. A gale was in full swing and harsh rain lashed at her pretty face as she saw the bleak turrets of the Quadrant, miles from anywhere on the clifftops, ahead of her. Warily she mounted the cold wet stony path.

Oh goodness! What WERE her cousins going to do with her? After she had been such a beast to them in the past. She was sure she would receive some form of payback. What was that expression again? "What goes around comes around?"

Last edited by Phil on Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:15 pm; edited 6 times in total

#2: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:52 pm
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Another lovely drabble from Phil. Thanks.

#3: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:23 pm
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Brilliant, thanks Phil! Laughing

Kathryn

#4: Author: Tiffany, Location: madthesispanicargh

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:45 pm
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Hurrahfor Phildrabble! Iwonder what they're going to do to her....

#5: Author: Róisín,

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:22 pm
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*still giggling* Brilliant. So many great things. Hurricane Thekla. Canine flu. Hypnotic triplet influence. Laughing

#6: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:24 am
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*sniggers*

Thanks Phil!

#7: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:11 am
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Ooooh I love Hurricane Thekla. Thanks Phil

#8: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:20 pm
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Drenched as she was, the hardy Sybil reached the great solid oak door of the Quadrant. There was an antique doorbell and Sybil gave it a good pull. She did not see four pairs of eyes staring balefully at her from the arrow slits in the mini turrets beside the main door.

The door was wrenched open and she was pulled into an atmosphere of warmth and wild Irish exclamations from her affectionate Aunt.

"Sybil my dear, you've got here at last! I was worried sick! The gales here can sweep you off your feet. Maurice, take her bag, Maeve take her coat! Where ARE your brothers and sisters? Come and have a hot drink Sybil, I've just been getting your room ready! I expect you'll be needing a hot meal too."

"Thank you Auntie Mollie!" said Sybil quietly. She looked round anxiously to see where her cousins were. She had not lived with (or tormented) Maurice and Maeve and she was not planning to be unkind to them either!

Auntie Mollie bustled away to find Uncle Dick and Sybil was left to eat a hot meal. Then she heard footsteps. A boy's footsteps. Two boys! Then the lighter tread of girl's feet. Two girls! Sybil stopped eating. She froze! Suddenly she didn't feel hungry. She got up and backed away. She bumped into someone. It was Peggy.

"H..H..Hello Peg PPeggy!" said Sybil with a weak smile. Peggy was standing a little too close for comfort. Sybil backed the other way and bumped into Rix, then John, then Bride. She tried to smile. "Hi."

The four eldest Bettanys were not smiling. They started to circle her, like sharks.

"Pp please, what do you want with me?" she asked

"Eating our food! Taking the food out of our mouths!"
"Well, you might as well finish your meal, mum cooked it specially for you!"
"I hope you are not going to be rude to mum!"
"After all WE'RE only cousins aren't we?"

Sybil shuddered. It was going to be really, really, really bad!

#9: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:21 pm
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Poor Sybil!

Loving the evil Bettanys. Thanks Phil

#10: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:27 pm
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They must have relished the idea of revenge on Sybil, she was pretty awful in her younger days, wasn't she?

Phil, you are amazing, with all these wonderful drabbles on the go! Thank you.

#11: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:13 pm
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Thanks, Phil. This is great so far. I am feeling a bit sorry for Sybil.

#12: Author: Tiffany, Location: madthesispanicargh

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:57 pm
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Go on, Sybil, smite them! Is there a kettle handy?

#13: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:25 am
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I'm yet to decide whether I feel sorry for Sybil or not in this drabble, keep it coming Phil! Very Happy

Thank you

Kathryn

#14: Author: Pado, Location: Connecticut, USA

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:38 am
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Not sure who I'm rooting for...yet...

#15: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:25 pm
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Uncle Dick and Auntie Mollie were so affectionate over their niece that Sybil felt very guilty about her past behaviour towards her Bettany cousins.

At the evening meal, Dick and Mollie were very chatty, as were maeve and Maurice, asking Sybil all sorts of questions. Those four members of the Bettany family were really making SYbil feel at home. The other four were not.

Rix, Peggy, Bride and John all sat therough the meal in silence. Requests to pass the vegetables or the gravy were silently if sullenly accepted. Dick regarded his eldest four with bewilderment,. This bewilderment soon turned to irritation.

"Is something up with you four?" he barked suddenly.

The guilty four jumped. Clearly they weren't going to be allowed to do the "silent" treatment on Sybil.

"No Dad" they mumbled.

"Well stop looking like the world has ended and join in the conversation!" Dick snapped.

John had an idea. "Dad, could this place be haunted?"

Sybil looked up in alarm. She was afraid of ghosts!

Peggy, Rix and Bride looked at John in glee! They knew Sybil was afraid of ghosts too!

"Absolute rubbish! There's no such thing!"

"Still it's funny how many Cornish and Devon legends there are about ghosts, and if you were writing a book about ghosts, this is the sort of place you would set a ghost story in!" Peggy put in innocently.

Sybil started to lose her appetite very quickly.

"Sybil, you'll not be listening to your daft cousins about ghosts and ghouls will ye?" asked Auntie Mollie.

"Nn nnn no!" Sybil's voice quavered.

"It's funny I could have heard a scream last night. " said Bride

"Might have been a cat" said Rix

"No it sounded like a girl, she seemed to be screaming, 'I'm sorry, please don't kill me' or something like that!" Bride laughed.

"Sorry Sybil. Didn't mean to upset you on your first night."

There was something unpleasant in Bride's smile.

That night, Sybil made a protective nest for herself under the bed clothes and started praying until she fell asleep!

#16: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:49 pm
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That was wicked, but no less than Sybil deserves! Thanks, Phil.

#17: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:42 pm
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Poor Sybil, there's going to be a lot of trouble ahead for her I fear...

Kathryn

#18: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:34 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I'm sorry that they are scaring Sybil.

#19: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:56 pm
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Oooh Bettanys getting their own back!
thanks Phil

#20: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:53 pm
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Poor Sybil had spent the past few nights quivering under her blankets wondering if she was going to be attacked by ghosts and ghouls. However, nothing had happened!

So she went to bed, perfectly relaxed and about to dream sweet dreams of fluffy bunnies leaping around lush green meadows. Unfortunately, this was to be rudely interrupted.

On the exploring the Quadrant when they moved in, the Bettanys had discovered a passage linking one bedroom to another. This turned out to be a link between Sybil's room and Rix's. It had slipped the Bettany's mind to tell Sybil about this. Most careless in the circumstances.

So when Sybil felt a hand on her neck and looked up a to see a fanged Rix (he was wearing joke fangs and had some of Peggy's lipstick colouring his mouth) she screamed as she thought a vampire was about to have his wicked way with her.

"Scream!"
"Squeal!"
"SCREAM!!!!!"

Sybil fainted.

Dick and Mollie rushed in at once and revived their unfortunate niece.
In tears did Sybil weep that she had seen a vampire who was about to drink her blood. She did not want to go back to sleep alone and could she possibly sleep with somebody else?

"It was so horrible (BOO HOO HOO) I thought I was going to die (BOO HOO HOO) Please Uncle Dick, may I sleep somewhere else? (SOBS!)"

Sybil finished with a howl which would have done credit to a werewolf.

Rix and Peggy came in.

"What's the matter with her?" growled Rix.

"You were the vampire!" squealed Sybil.

"What vampire? Don't be silly Sybil there are no such things!" retorted Peggy, a hint of contempt in her voice.

"Well it must be a nightmare." decided Mollie Bettany. "I think we should all go back to sleep."

Unfortunately, Mollie's next words roused Peggy to fury.

"I think Sybil should sleep in Peggy's room from now on and Peggy, you won't mind sleeping here will you?"

Peggy was speechless. Was that a smug grin on Sybil's face? If there was it disappeared quickly as Peggy shot her cousin a murderous glare.

#21: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:34 pm
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So this is what their harmonious family life was really like.

#22: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:11 am
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Brilliant Phil. Thank you.

#23: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:51 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I wonder how much more Sybil will be able to take.

#24: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:57 pm
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Has Phil gone off on holiday without completing a CBB leave form?

#25: Re: The Bettanys' Revenge 2/6/06 update Author: Mary, Location: Sussex University

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:33 pm
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Phil wrote:

...the brisk Dr Jack and his bizarre hydrotherapy methods for hysterical patients (thumping them and dunking their heads in ice cold water)...

There's nothing more to say. I'm actually crying I laughed so much. That and the infectious athlete's foot/canine flu/missing Mary-Lou.

Keep on writing!
M
xx

#26: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:29 am
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Jennie wrote:

Has Phil gone off on holiday without completing a CBB leave form?

Is that allowed?!?!

#27: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:44 pm
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No, of course it isn't. The Squeen will have to hold another court session.

(Hopes someone will write that one and post it)

#28: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:37 am
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Peggy had done her best to trash her room before Madame Sybil moved in. Screws in the curtain rail were loosened, the water to the basin turned off, the mattress was wet with some foul smelling liquid. To top it all off, the wardrobe doors came off in Sybil's hands!

Staggering under the weight of the doors, Sybil broke the wall mirror.

"Oh dear!" said Bride passing by. "Seven years of bad luck!"

Sybil was used to bad luck. She was used to having an overcrowded home, she was used to her parents never being there for her and she was used to Auntie Joey constantly talking behind her back about her!

"Right! This means war!" snarled Sybil.

She ran down to the kitchen and filled a kettle with ice cold water. She then poured in some cough medicine, cod liver oil, shampoo, lemon juice and an array of food dyes. She was just about to do some dreadful deed, when the postman came.

In her mind, Sybil uttered the most dark thoughts about the postman. She hid the kettle, and distributed the post to her ungrateful cousins.

She went back to find the kettle had vanished!

Sybil panicked. Where could it be? Where?

SHe checked the laundry room, the coalshed, the attic. She never found it until bedtime. She opened the door to her new room and was drenched in the most foul smelling concoction she had ever brewed.

"What goes around comes around Sybil." smirked Bride.

"I am going to kill you!" breathed Sybil

"You threatning my sister?" growled Rix.

"Look what she's done to me!" squealed Sybil.

"Look what we had to put up with ever since you were born!" snapped Peggy.

Sybil shivered, then she leapt upon Bride and before long the two were having a stand up fight. Peggy, Rix and jackie tried to separate the two, and Maeve and Maurice thought it would be a terrific idea to join in the family bundle.

A screaming protesting Sybil was taken outside and unceremoniously dumped in a horse trough, before being rolled in a muddy field.

Despite rigorous enquiries by Dick and Mollie, they never did get to the bottom of whyy Sybil caught a severe cold and how her clothes came to be so dirty.

As she sneezed and coughed her way through the night, Sybil vowed to run away. Her determination to do this was made greater by the horrific news that Uncle Jack had a bed in the San and Sybil would be flown out, to be entrusted to the care of Uncle Jack and Auntie Joey!!!

To Sybil, this was worse than death itself! She could cope with her Bettany cousins, but Auntie Joey's scorn and Uncle Jack's 'obey or else' tactics were beyond coping with. Then there were the annoying sanctimonius triplets. Who did they think they were?

That night, over a game of cards, Peggy, Rix, Jackie and Bride celebrated Sybil's forthcoming departure! The fact she was going was great! The fact she was going to her bete noire of an aunt was even better! Revenge was so sweet!

#29: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:33 am
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No, of course it isn't. The Squeen will have to hold another court session.

(Hopes someone will write that one and post it)

Elle Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

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Jennie wrote:
Has Phil gone off on holiday without completing a CBB leave form?

(Wriggles and squirms and hangs head in shame.)

Eeeek! Very sorry! (Offers no excuse as everyone is busy)

Crying or Very sad

(Worrying big tme as to what happens to naughty people who don't update their drabbles & what CBBers will do to me.)

#30: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:08 pm
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As long as you weren't on holiday without filling in a leave form, it's Ok Phil. Being very busy is different.

(It wasn't triplets by any chance?)

#31: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:44 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I'm sorry that the revenge is getting worse.

#32: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:13 pm
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I felt really sorry for Sybil there; I hope you let her redeem herself in the eyes of her cousins soon, as I don't think she can take much more of this treatment. Thanks, Phil. And it's good to see you back again!

#33: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:36 pm
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Thanks Phil, feeling very sorry for Sybil right now!

Kathryn

#34: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:12 am
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Quite what it was about the hurricane season in Europe that year, nobody knew. Hurricane Eilunnedd decided to pay a visit and wreck the Quadrant.

Whilst Joey Maynard laughed in sheer smugness, Huirricane Betty flattened Freueudesheim and the Chalet School, and the San!

Sybil had left the Quadrant several hours before the hurricane and was now enjoying tea with a cornish lifeguard's son who was so laid back, he was almost horizontal. On the radio, the report of Freuedesheim being flattened was played out and Sybil danced a jig of glee. Toby the lifeguard's boy was puzzled and asked the reason for this, to which Sybil replied,

"Thank God I don't have to live with Auntie Joey, Uncle Jack and those Bl**** triplets!"

She proceeded to elaborate just how sententious Auntie Joey was, how brusque Uncle Jack was and how the triplets were more appropriate to the witches of Macbeth as they wound everybody up!

After a game of dominoes, Sybil found she had left something back at the quadrant.

"Oh bother! I shall have to fetch it! It's my hairbrush! The only present Mummy ever gave me!"

"I'll come with you!" offered the bronzed muscular giant Toby.

"Oh goody! I almost feel quite warm and forgiving to my cousins now that the threat of Auntie Joey is removed!"

And off they set for the Quadrant, Sybil giggling happily at Toby's jokes.

#35: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:05 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I'm glad that Sybil doesn't have to go to Freudesheim now.

#36: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:56 pm
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Me likes Toby Very Happy

Thanks Phil!

#37: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:37 pm
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Sybil's fallen on her feet this time! Thanks, Phil.

#38: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:14 pm
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The Bettany family were living in an army tent. They were not enjoying themselves. Along strolled Sybil and her male escort.

"Hello everybody!" Sybil chirped.

"Hi Sybil!" muttered the Bettanys.

"Oh come on, this could be a lot worse! You could be at Auntie Joey's!"

The Bettanys grinned. Then they smirked, then giggled, then laughed. Always look on the bright side, they thought.

"Let's rebuild the Quadrant!" said Dick.

"It's still our land" said Mollie

I've got three equally bronzed muscular giant brothers who will help!" contributed Toby.

Peggy, Bride and Maeve all stepped forward eagerly. Sybil WAS their favourite cousin now!

"They aren't doctors are they?" queried Bride nervously.

"Or lawyers?" asked Peggy

"Or Navy Officers?" asked Maeve.

"Heavens, no! They are all lifeguards in training like me!"

"Fantastic! Three daughters and one neice married off in one day!" murmured Mollie.

"Now we just sell the boys into slavery and we can have the place to ourselves!" finished Dick.

"There's no need for that!" said Toby.

"Dad owns a nightclub and he could do with some bouncers. Your sons would be perfect! They would meet loads of rich young ladies! He's also got three million pounds he needs to lose fast. The tax man is after him. Let's split it between your boys!"

"Well that's settled!" said Dick.

So the Quadrant was rebuilt on Dick's design of triplet proof twelve foot high walls with barbed wire and wrought iron gates to keep out lime green and cream minibuses.

Sybil had her own little corner of Devon to settle into. When Madge remembered she had a daughter left in her brothers care (about three years later), Dick denied all knowledge of Sybil. Madge went away completely satisfied. Joey was a different matter.

"Where is that girl? She must OBEY! SHE WILL OBEY!" screamed Joey at the Quadrant gates. But answer came there none. Joey never saw Sybil again. Much to Sybil's relief!

THE END

#39: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:23 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I was wondering how long it would take Madge to realise that she had mislaid her oldest daughter.

#40: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:30 pm
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Thanks, Phil. I'm glad that everything worked out well in the end.

#41: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:53 pm
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Thanks Phil, I'm glad Sybil had her happy ending Very Happy

#42: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:13 am
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I'm glad it all worked out for Sybil in the end. Thanks, Phil.

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