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Disclaimer: I don't own Twlight - surprise! But it wouldn't be very nice if you copied or translated, so please don't - isn't there enough unpleasantness in the world already?
This little one-shot kinda came out of nowhere, and has no ties to Never Enough or either of the other one-shots that I have co-written. I originally started this for a Father's Day contest, but I blew the contest deadline. Of course the day AFTER the voting started in the contest my muse whispered the rest of the story to me, so I finished it! I figured what the heck, Edward deserves his Father's Day, right?
Many thanks to my betas on this one, ScottishRose1028 and PixieKat7, who stepped in when my regular beta and ficwife Iadorepugs is away and unable to beta for me. Lots of love to Cullen_Crazy01 and BilliCullen, who pre-read for me and held my hand, reassuring me that this was okay to publish, and super-duper extra Cullen boy lovin' to Melee03 who not only pre-read & gave me great feedback, but also made me an unbelievably adorable banner for this story. Mel, you are the BEST! I will link the banner on my profile page, or you can see it on my Facebook page as well.
Best Laid Plans - A Father's Day One-Shot
"Mmmmm, Bella. Time to wake up, love," Edward whispered in my ear, nuzzling my neck as he smoothed his hand over my hair and down my arm, lacing our fingers together.
I burrowed deeper into my pillow and squeezed my eyes shut. It felt like I had just stumbled to bed only moments before. It couldn't be time to get up yet, could it? "Please, just a few more minutes?" I whined pathetically.
I felt the bed shift behind me as Edward snuggled closer, his warm chuckle sending a shiver down my spine. "I'm sorry Bella; I let you sleep as long as I could. You said last night you wanted a shower before we left for brunch at my parents' today and there's just enough time for you to shower and dress before we have to leave."
Brunch at his parents? Shit! I'd forgotten all about that in my sleep-deprived fog! That meant today was Sunday. Father's Day. Edward's very first Father's Day.
I sat up quickly, throwing my legs over the side of the bed, stumbling as I tried to gain my footing. I shrieked involuntarily when I looked at the clock—I had forty-five minutes to get ready before we had to leave! Normally time wasn't a problem, but this was so not how I had wanted to usher in Edward's first Father's Day.
Eight weeks ago today, Edward and I had welcomed our twins Vanessa and Edward, Jr., or Teddy as we had begun calling him, into our lives. My pregnancy had been difficult towards the end and the twins had been born early, but they were doing well now and we were all at home and adjusting nicely to life.
It had been my intention to spoil Edward rotten today of all days, but the twins had been restless last night. They'd had their first set of vaccinations at the doctor's office on Friday and were still feeling the effects of those shots. I'd walked the floor first with Vanessa and then Teddy for most of the previous night. By the time morning arrived and they were settled and sleeping peacefully in their cribs, I was a wreck. As the sun was rising outside, I had crawled back under the covers and collapsed in exhaustion, praying for a few hours of sleep.
I cursed internally at myself, then turned around and smiled apologetically at Edward. "Thanks for waking me up. Happy Father's Day, sweetheart."
Edward's return smile was brilliant. He was such an amazing husband and father. He made me feel like I was the luckiest woman alive. He got up and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "I'll get everything ready for Mom and Dad's, you take your time."
After nearly falling asleep beneath the warm spray of the shower, I stood in front of my meager wardrobe and wondered what the hell I was going to wear. I was still on leave from my job and spent my days in tee shirts and yoga pants. Except for the twins' christening, this was the first semi-dressy occasion I had attended since their birth. I certainly couldn't wear any of my maternity clothes—I had gained sixty-five pounds during my pregnancy and everything would be far too large. However, while I had certainly lost a great deal of that pregnancy weight, I wasn't yet able to fit into my 'normal' clothes either.
Knowing that my sisters-in-law would be veritable fashion plates, I reached for a pretty pre-pregnancy sundress that had an empire waist and loose-fitting bodice. I groaned in frustration as I tried to zip the back, finding that the 'loose-fitting bodice' was now skin-tight over my massive mammary glands. "Jesus Christ Bella, got milk?" I muttered, grabbing a short-sleeved cardigan from the shelf that I hoped would help disguise my udders. My breasts were already uncomfortably full and I wished in vain that I had time to pump or feed the babies before we left for Carlisle and Esme's. I walked into the bedroom, hoping that Edward would be able to help me with the tricky zipper.
Edward was threading his belt through his belt loops and I felt my mouth momentarily go dry at the sight of his polo shirt being stretched over the taught muscles of his shoulders and back. My husband grew more and more handsome every day and I was reminded that not only had it been eight weeks since our children had been born, but an additional six weeks before then that the doctor had put me on bed rest. Had it really been fourteen weeks since my husband and I had made love? I did a quick mental calculation. Ninety-eight days. Holy shit, that was almost triple digits! We'd started sleeping together a mere three weeks into our relationship and had never gone more than a handful of days at any point since then, until my pregnancy. And now we'd gone almost a hundred?
"Edward?" I said, my voice a little husky and I cleared my throat self-consciously. Edward turned to look at me and his eyes widened a little bit at the sight of my cleavage spilling over the neckline of my sundress. I could feel my cheeks heating in a blush, something that I hadn't done in years. "Could you help me with the zipper on this dress? I know it's tight, but I don't really have anything else that's appropriate for brunch."
Edward crossed the room and my eyes dropped to watch the way he moved. I always loved his loose-gaited walk, those long strides that were so sexy, almost predatory when he walked toward me. He reached out and stroked one long finger along my décolletage and I felt my skin tingle in response. "I think you look beautiful, Bella," he said, his voice warm and velvety smooth. He turned me around with the slightest pressure of his hands, his fingers working the zipper into place, then brushing along the sensitive skin of my upper back and neck.
I turned to look at Edward and felt my knees buckle at the desire I saw in his eyes. God, it felt like it had been so long since I had been a wife, a woman, something other than a caregiver and wet-nurse. I turned my entire body toward Edward's and wrapped my arms around his neck, my fingers playing with the hair at the nape of his neck as I stood on tiptoe to press my lips against his. Edward hesitated for a moment before sliding his arms around my waist and pulling me closer, his lips opening to mine as our tongues tangled. I moaned when his fingers gripped my hips, pressing me harder against his burgeoning erection.
Just as I started tugging on the hem of his shirt, a familiar cry rent the air through the baby monitor and we paused mid-kiss. "Vanessa," we said at the same time. A few moments later, a second cry joined in. "And Teddy," I said with a sigh. "I guess it's time to get them ready for brunch."
Edward cupped my face in his hands gently, the urgency of the moment having passed, and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. "Then let's get our daughter and son ready," he said with a reverence that never failed to amaze me and a willingness that touched my heart. Despite the fact that I'd been the one to walk the floors with the cranky babies last night, Edward was very much a hands-on father and absolutely devoted to our children. I knew how lucky I was and how lucky our children were.
Of course, he'd had a great example to learn from. Everything that Edward did as a husband and as a new father he had learned from my father-in-law. Carlisle Cullen was a dream come true. He and Esme were still as in love after thirty-five years as Edward and I were after only five and they were the most amazing parents I'd ever met. Emmett, Edward and Alice were as close as siblings could be and their spouses were just as charming and loveable as they were. When I'd first met the family, they'd seemed almost unbelievable, like something out of a novel to me.
Emmett, the oldest of the three, was married to Rosalie. They had two perfect little girls, Lilly age five and Heather age three. They were carbon copies of their beautiful mother, with long blonde ringlets and beautiful violet-blue eyes. They were always dressed in elaborate dresses and had impeccable manners, yet were still mischievous, fun and loveable like their father.
Alice, the middle child, was married to Jasper. They were yin and yang, Alice was hyper where Jasper was laid back. I didn't understand how two completely divergent personalities could make it work, but they did so beautifully. They had one son, Peter, named after Jasper's best friend. Peter was two-and-a-half and an incredibly precocious little boy, who was already reading and writing. He had potty trained himself at eighteen months, which was about the same time he started talking in complete sentences.
Alice and Rosalie made it seem so easy that I wasn't worried in the least when Edward and I decided to start trying for a baby. Perhaps it had been naïve of me, but I believed that it would be simple for me to balance my life just as easily as they had done.
What I hadn't counted on was twins and preterm labor complicated by placenta previa that put me on bed rest at twenty-seven weeks. And not the kind of bed rest where you could get up to go to the bathroom, do light work, or even walk around your house and just sit down when you had a contraction or got tired. This bed rest was in the hospital, hooked up to monitors and pumped full of drugs to stave off labor, then steroids when labor was inevitable. Vanessa and Teddy were born at thirty-five weeks and spent two weeks in the hospital before they were allowed to go home. They were smaller than full-term infants, but perfectly healthy and the absolute lights of our lives.
We pulled into the drive at Carlisle and Esme's home and I fussed with my sweater, unhappy with the way it stretched and stretched and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d over my chest. "Damn it, I should have pumped before we left," I grumbled.
"I told you before Bella, you look beautiful," Edward told me, leaning over and giving me a kiss on the cheek.
"Emmett's going to make fun of me," I warned, grabbing Vanessa's car seat out of the back of the Volvo as Edward grabbed Teddy's.
"Just because he's jealous, love," Edward reassured me.
"Why the hell should Emmett be jealous? Does he want breasts that have their own ZIP code?" I mumbled sarcastically.
"He's jealous that my wife has them," Edward said, stopping suddenly and pressing a hard, possessive kiss to my lips, his tongue getting all bossy with mine. I stared up at him, a little dazed and Edward grinned, seeming to know the effect he was having on me "Emmett's a boob man, and yours are bigger than Rosalie's now. It's killing him."
I rolled my eyes. "Emmett's a boob man? Seriously, did I need to know that Edward? And what's Jasper, an ass man?"
"Nope Jasper's got a thing for legs," Edward answered matter-of-factly. "My dad's the ass man."
I gasped and smacked Edward on the shoulder. "Great, now I'm going to picture your dad as Cosmo 'The Assman' Kramer from Seinfeld. So if your brother is the boob man, and your brother-in-law is the leg man, and your dad is..." I shuddered, unable to complete the thought, "what are you, Edward Cullen?"
He leaned down and pressed his lips near my ear. "I'm a Bella man, and I'm greedy enough to want it all," he said huskily, feathering kisses across my cheek before he captured my lips is another slow, sensuous kiss that sent my temperature soaring.
Brunch at the Cullen house was always a grand affair, but this Father's Day Esme had pulled out all the stops to celebrate her husband, sons, and son-in-law. I was truly grateful that she had, since my own plans to spoil my husband had crashed and burned so spectacularly. Even though it was a day celebrating the men, it felt like a day of rest for me as well, with all the extra hands taking care of Vanessa and Teddy.
I noticed Emmett watching me with a wicked grin and I arched an eyebrow at him. "Can I help you?" I asked him sardonically.
"Yeah, just watching to make sure you don't fall asleep. If you were to nod off, I'm afraid you'd suffocate in your excessive boobage," he joked, leering at my cleavage. "Ouch! What the hell, Rosalie?" Emmett whined, rubbing his head where his wife had smacked him.
"Stop looking at your sister-in-law's breasts, Emmett," she scolded him.
"I can't help myself; they have their own gravitational pull. There's more boobs than Bella right now," Emmett said in an amazed voice.
"Edward," I said a bit desperately, turning to him as he tried to soothe a fussy Teddy.
"Emmett, stop ogling my wife's boobs or I'm going to put breast milk in your coffee at work tomorrow," Edward told him, and we all laughed when Emmett choked on his iced tea.
Emmett pouted and looked at me with puppy-dog eyes and in return I rolled mine at him. I didn't take his teasing seriously—Emmett was always joking around and making us laugh. But I was getting seriously physically uncomfortable, especially when Vanessa started to cry her hungry cry.
"Esme?" I said softly to gain my mother-in-law's attention. She looked up from where my daughter was situated on her lap and smiled at me. "May I take Vanessa inside for some privacy?" I asked, grabbing the diaper bag.
"Of course, sweetie, that's what the nursery's there for. Do you want me to bring Teddy to you in a little while?" she asked.
"That would be great. Give me about twenty minutes?" I suggested, and she nodded, handing Vanessa to me. I walked over to Edward and pressed a kiss to the top of his head, smiling at him when he looked up at me, the love in his gaze making my heart race.
I made quick work of changing Vanessa's diaper and sat down in the rocking chair, sliding the straps of my sundress and bra off my shoulder and placing Vanessa at my breast. I groaned with relief when she latched on hungrily, her grayish-green eyes locking with mine as she fed. I loved these quiet times with my babies and I talked softly to Vanessa, cooing and humming from time to time as well.
I could tell Vanessa was getting sleepy when her eyes started crossing and rolling and I giggled to myself when I thought of Edward referring to the twins' fullness as a 'milk coma.' I lifted her to my opposite shoulder and patted her gently until she released a burp her Uncle Emmett would be proud of and then laid her in the crib.
I jumped when I heard a noise behind me and quickly pulled up the bodice of my sundress, turning to see Edward standing in the doorway with Teddy in his arms and a grin on his face. "Damn, you covered up," he said as he entered the nursery.
I snorted and rolled my eyes, knowing that no matter Emmett's fascination, there was very little that was sexy about my massive mammary glands, which were built for nourishment, not for sexual stimulation. "Like you haven't seen me a thousand times before," I said.
"Mmm, like I said before, I'm a Bella man. It never gets old," Edward said, laying Teddy on the changing table and quickly changing his diaper. My eyes narrowed and my heart raced as I watched him. There was something so sexy about a confident, loving father, and my Edward was certainly all three, with a heavy emphasis on the sexy.
When he was done he laid Teddy in my arms and helped me bare my breast to our son. As with Vanessa, I sighed in relief when Teddy latched on, the pain in my chest already subsiding. I looked up at Edward with a twinkle in my eye. "Thank goodness you brought Teddy in here. I was terrified of what Emmett would have said if I came out lopsided," I teased. Last week I had been so tired in the middle of the night that I had forgotten to feed the twins on opposite sides and when I was done feeding them, my left breast was two sizes smaller than my right one. Edward and I had both gotten a good laugh out of that one.
Edward stood beside me as I rocked our son, talking and humming to him as I had done with Vanessa. Edward's fingers played with my hair and gently stroked my neck and shoulders and I moaned softly from time to time at his tender touch. Teddy nursed for just a bit longer than his sister before he gave in to slumber's call as well. Edward picked him up gently and patted his back, burping him and laying him down next to Vanessa as I righted my clothing. I was relieved that the bodice of my sundress wasn't quite as tight now and that my breasts no longer threatened to spill over the neckline.
Edward held his hands out to me and helped me from the chair, pulling me into the circle of his arms and holding me loosely. He raised one hand to my face, his fingers caressing my cheek and cupping my jaw as he leaned down to kiss me, gently at first, but quickly growing in intensity and passion that left both of us panting. I was pressed tightly against his body, not because he was holding me there but because I was the one moving against him. Edward's eyes were dark as he gazed down at me and I curved my hand around his neck, bringing him down to me for another lush kiss. I slid my hands down his back, scratching lightly, enjoying the way he shuddered in my arms tremendously. Edward's hand reached down and palmed my bottom, bunching the fabric of my sundress as he molded my body to his.
"Bella darling, do you need any help with the babies? I...oops, sorry, sorry!" Esme trilled from the doorway. Edward and I jumped apart, both of us grinning like fools and blushing like crazy.
"It's okay, Mom," Edward said, his voice a little strangled and his back to Esme. I smirked at him when he reached down and blatantly adjusted himself. He narrowed his eyes at me playfully and mouthed, "Later!"
The rest of the afternoon passed swiftly. Edward absolutely loved his Father's Day gift of a portrait of the twins that Alice had taken for me. And both Carlisle and Esme had tears in their eyes at the photograph of all of the grandchildren, which Alice had also taken, as Carlisle's Father's Day gift. Lilly and Heather were holding Vanessa and Teddy respectively, while Peter stood behind them all as if he were the patriarch of the Cullen/Whitlock grandchildren—it was absolutely precious.
Edward and I were the first to bid our farewells to the family, but despite our early departure we were both unable to disguise our yawns by the time we pulled into our driveway. We gathered everything from the car and took the babies inside, both of them overtired, hungry and fussy. We gave them short baths and then I nursed first Teddy, then Vanessa, and we laid them down in their cribs once they had fallen asleep.
"Ready for bed?" Edward asked, running his fingers through his hair, his expression weary and his eyes tired. He grimaced when he turned his head and caught a whiff of the spit up on his shoulder where Vanessa had marked his shirt.
"Just about. Why don't you go take a shower and I'll be in shortly?" I suggested. Neither of the babies had nursed for very long and I could feel the tell-tale tightness in my breasts. I knew I needed to pump, especially if I was going to follow through with my plans for the evening.
"Okay love," Edward replied, brushing a soft kiss across my forehead.
As soon as I heard the shower start in our room, I pulled out the breast pump and got to work. I had discovered, much to my horror and extreme embarrassment, that sexual stimulation actually made my milk let down the same way that a baby's hunger cry did. Just last week, a couple of days after the lopsided incident, Edward and I had been fooling around and I'd practically turned into a milk fountain. Thank goodness I'd been wearing a nursing bra with extra padding, but even with those reinforcements, I had still leaked through my clothing. If I wanted to end our sexual hiatus, I wanted to make sure I had as little milk as possible in my system.
Once I was done pumping and the milk was stored, I returned to our bedroom...only to find Edward fast asleep on top of the covers on our bed. His hair was wet and slicked back from his shower and he was clad only in a pair of gray boxer briefs. Today's newspaper was beside him, as if he had tried to stay awake reading it but was unable to do so. I smiled sympathetically, knowing that I had fallen asleep waiting for him on more than one occasion lately.
I hurried through my nightly ablutions and searched my drawers for something pretty and sexy to wear. I sighed in frustration when I was unable to find anything pre-pregnancy that would fit and vowed to start walking now that the weather was nicer and work a little harder on shedding some more of my pregnancy weight as I pulled on a pair of satin sleep pants and a tank top before crawling into bed beside my husband.
I reached out and traced my fingers over Edward's face, following the line of his jaw, his cheekbones and his nose. His lips twitched and he sighed and smiled, mumbling my name as I reached up to run my fingers through his hair. I stretched out beside him, pressing soft kisses to his angular jaw and burying my nose in the crook of his neck to inhale his warm fragrance. "Mmmmm," I moaned quietly, my lips and tongue tasting him as I moved down toward his shoulders and collarbones.
I nibbled and nipped, drawing the flat of my tongue across his skin, then nuzzling my nose lower into the smattering of chest hair that grew lightly on his pectoral muscles. Edward shifted slightly under my caresses, a low moan escaping his throat. I looked up at him, but his eyes were still closed and his face relaxed in slumber. I stroked my hands across his chest, tracing the contours of his muscles. Edward was toned and firm beneath my fingertips and lips as I traced the path my fingers blazed with my mouth. His abs were clearly defined, as was the muscled 'V' of his hipbones and I couldn't stop myself from running my nose along the 'V', or the happy trail that disappeared beneath the band of his boxer briefs
Edward moaned again as he shifted on the bed and I noted with interest that something else was shifting as well and tenting beneath his boxer briefs. As much as I wanted to take him in hand, or somewhere else, I wanted to make sure that he was completely awake for the experience, so I continued to arouse and tease his body from slumber. I flattened my hands on his abs and slid my palms along his hips and down to his muscled thighs, stroking and lightly scratching with my nails. I watched with avid fascination as his erection grew thick and sturdy even though I hadn't touched him intimately yet.
"Bella," Edward rasped. I looked up to find him looking at me through eyelids at half-mast, his gaze smoldering. He reached down with one hand and fisted my hair in his fingers, pulling me up toward him gently to bring us together for a long, slow kiss. "God, I thought was dreaming," he mumbled, kissing me again and again, leaving me breathless and wanting more.
I slid my questing hands down his torso once again. This time, when I made it to the waistband of his boxer briefs, I didn't stop, but slid my hand over top of the smooth cotton material. I swallowed Edward's groan of pleasure and rubbed my thighs together to assuage the sharp sting of lust evoked by his responses. I kissed my way down his body again and smiled wickedly when he allowed me to remove his boxers, lifting his ass to assist in the task.
Edward's erection stood proud before me, arousal leaking at the tip. I moved his legs so that I could kneel between them and then gently ran my hands up and down his legs, using my fingernails to tease the sensitive skin of his inner thighs.
"Oh fuck, Bella," Edward groaned when I ran the tip of my index finger in slow spirals from the head of his erection to the base and back again. I leaned forward, making sure he was watching me before taking just the tip of his erection into my mouth. I actually felt his cock twitch when my tongue made contact with his slit, licking up the salty precum that had beaded there, before I slowly began to lower my mouth onto him.
I had only made two passes up and down his cock and was reaching to grasp his base with my hand when Edward sat up suddenly and pulled me into his arms. "No more of that," he commanded, attacking my mouth with his.
Edward could feel me pouting into our kiss and he chuckled. "Bella, I refuse to be a two-pump chump, which is what I will be if I let you suck my cock right now," he whispered in a low voice, and I moaned in response. Edward was a consummate gentleman, except when we were in bed, where he had the dirtiest mouth and it turned me on like crazy. He nuzzled my hair to the side and pressed his lips to my neck, licking the spot beneath my ear that drove me wild before sucking gently. "It's been far too long, love. I have to be inside you."
He tugged at the hem on my shirt. "Let me see you, beautiful," he said, and I hesitated. I looked so different now, with scars and stretch marks that I didn't have before. Edward sensed my reticence. "Bella, sweetheart. I love you, more than my own life. Nothing is going to change that. Not weight gained when you carried our two precious angels. Not scars from birthing them. Not changes to your body while you continue to nourish them so they can grow healthy and strong. Show me and let me prove it to you."
With trembling hands, I helped Edward remove my tank top and sleep pants. I tried not to hide from his gaze as he studied my changed body; his eyes taking in my wider hips, the Caesarian scar just above my pubic bone, the angry reddish stretch marks the doctor assured me would fade to silver as time passed, and my oversized breasts, still larger than life even though they weren't currently engorged with milk.
"You are fucking perfect, Isabella Cullen," Edward growled, pulling me into his arms. I slid my hands into his hair, grabbing him roughly as our mouths met in a frenzied kiss. His hands were everywhere and I whimpered, moaned and gasped as he touched and stroked me. Despite our urgency his caresses were gentle, almost reverent as he explored my body.
When neither of us could wait any longer, Edward positioned himself between my legs as he looked deeply into my eyes. "Are you ready, love?" he asked softly, reaching out and touching my cheek in a gentle caress.
"God yes, please Edward," I breathed, raising my hips, I was so mindless with want for him.
Edward pressed forward and we moaned in unison as he entered me. I felt the delicious stretch as his cock filled me inch by inch and Edward stopped to catch his breath when he was buried to the hilt. But I didn't want him to stop. I wrapped my legs around his hips, my heels digging into the back of his thighs as I slid against him. Rather than fight my movements, Edward grabbed my ass for leverage and started his advance and retreat.
"Oh sh-sh-shit," Edward stuttered as we moved together in perfect rhythm, the steps and tempo of our familiar dance increasing steadily. Neither one of us seemed capable of drawing out the experience as we clutched one another, our arms, legs and lips in a desperate tangle as our bodies sought completion. Edward's fingers snaked between us and stroked my clit in counterpoint to his thrusts, and I felt myself shattering moments before his climax seized him.
We lay entwined for endless moments, our breathing heavy as we exchanged languid kisses. I didn't want to move, so content was I in Edward's arms. I ran my fingers through his hair, scratching his scalp as he pressed soft kisses to my jaw and neck. He pulled back to look at my face, his eyes shining.
I realized that despite the day not working out the way I had intended, I had managed to give him the exact gift I had planned and I smiled in return. "Happy Father's Day, Edward."
I hope you enjoyed Bella's gift as much as Edward seemed to :) If there was anything that made you smile, laugh, sigh, or even growl in frustration, please take a moment to let me know by pressing that "review" button below and telling me what you though of "Best Laid Plans".
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The instant Tyler's face hardened, I knew there was a painful reason as to why he had kept conversation away from the subject of family.
"Had. Older sister, little Brother."
I looked at him, empathising with how he felt, knowing that seperation from your siblings was the hardest burden to bear.
"How'd you know they're dead, that's just.. not possible with you being so.... Isolated." I searched fro the right word but still made him wince. I felt a twinge of sympathetic pain.
"After I finally controlled all of my emotions I went home, Wolf Form of course, I mean, I was a wanted murderer wasn't I? I skulked around a bit, sunk into my house. My Mum was crying and my dad was just staring at the floor. My little brother curled up. Hugging a pillow. "First Tyler." He whispered. "Then Ems." "
He looked up at the sun, smiling in a way I recognised all too well. When he faced me again, there were tears in his eyes. There was a burning in my eyes and throat that threatened my own tears.
"He was Nine. his brother had killed someone, then mysteriously vanished. His sister presumed dead. what a great start to this life."
He suddenly rose up, punching a tree in anger. I flinched away from the sudden violence, regarding him cautiously as he came to sit back down. There was a deep crater in the wood where his fist had impacted.
"I had a brother." I said softly, after a while of silence. "Twin. After we were attacked, he vanished and I had to leave. We never found any trace of him." I swallowed painfully, seeing his face in my minds eye. "I don't even know if he's alive." I whispered, more to myself, struggling to keep the tears back.
There was a silence that seemed to echo following my revelation. Finally, Tyler shifted closer, I kept my gaze fixed on the ground.
"I'm sorry." He said abruptly, his voice gruff.
I shook my head in reply. Tyler shifted again and I flinched away, painfully aware of the violence he was capable of. A pained expression flashed across his face. I kept my mouth shut, my facer averted. I sensed Tyler wanted to speak, but was struggling to find the words.

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If bringing the intensity in the second half is a learned trait, Arkansas coach Bret Bielema tried to teach his team to learn it in Tuesday's practice. The Razorbacks had a halftime in the middle of the workout, then re-launched practice trying to up the intensity.
The Razorbacks played No. 6 Auburn to a 21-21 first half, then lost the second half 24-0 for their 13th straight SEC loss. Along with the halftime break, Bielema also talked to his team about the losing streak, according to quarterback Brandon Allen.
"This whole week, Coach Bielema is stressing the halftime lag," Allen said after practice Tuesday. "He broke up practice today in two halves. We talked about starting the second half with some juice. We need energy and juice to open the half so we practiced that today."
As far as the losing streak, Allen said he knew it's been awhile since they have won. He was asked by a media member if he had forgotten how to win.
"I wouldn't say I've forgotten the feeling of winning, but it's been tough," he said. "Coach Bielema told us that (the losing streak) was brought up to him today that it was one of the worst ever. He said we can not embrace that. We are going to change that."
The foe is underdog Nicholls State at 3 p.m. Saturday in Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Allen was asked if he remembered the taste of victory.
"It's important to win this game," he said. "It comes down to us executing. We went through a tough year last year. As far as the streak, it comes down to each individual and then coming together as a team, expecting to win. It's not so much as the streak is on our mind as it is we have the desire to win and we expect to win.
"We are starved for that win. I know the fans are just as starved for a win. It's been a long time and it is tough on them, too.
"We need a win and we need a statement. We need to come out fast and clean and if we do that, we have a chance to have a good game and win."
Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney thinks his junior quarterback is handling things the right way. He thought there were a lot of positives in Allen's play against Auburn. He especially liked his checks at the line of scrimmage that produced some big gainers.
"I thought he played a good football game," Chaney said. "I thought there was a lot of room for improvement, but I was pleased with how he performed. In my position, being at it for 30 years, I think you can want something for a kid so bad it hurts, and I wanted Brandon to go out there and perform at a level of football that he felt comfortable with.
"I feel like we walked off the field and can say that he did perform better than he has in the past. He was able to see the fronts and change things now so we're happy he's able to do that."
Chaney thought the team practiced well Tuesday, with the emphasis on playing as well at the end as the start.
"We've talked a lot about it and we try to push the end of practice to be more emphasizing so the kids understand that when they're tired is when they need to strain and concentrate more on their details," Chaney said. "It's very important for us to play four good quarters of football."
Offensive line coach Sam Pittman said his unit had one solid half, but didn't play as well in the second half when Auburn added a man in the box and added some line movement.
"I was very pleased with the first half, especially coming back from 21-7," Pittman said. "We responded to adversity there, but we didn't respond to adversity in the second half.
"We missed an assignment on a big play (for an interception), and we had a third-and-4 where we ran a play against the same front we saw in the first half and we had a missed assignment and it went for minus 6 yards. They score and we bust assignment and we are down two scores. We just didn't deal with adversity at that point like we did in the first half."
Pittman said he would have subbed in his front in the second half if he thought effort was lagging.
"I thought we had some major mistakes in the second half, missed assignments," he said. "When I was on the sideline looking in their eyes, I didn't think they looked tired. But when I looked at the tape, I saw where they might have been tired. So we will look to sub some."
That means playing Frank Ragnow at center to rest Mitch Smothers. It also may mean playing Sebastian Tretola at both guard spots and moving Denver Kirkland to tackle for some snaps to rest Brey Cook.
"We played six against Auburn and I think we have seven that are ready adding Frank to the mix," Pittman said. "And, we will work to get to eight and then to nine. We'll play those that we think give us a chance to win. I like to play the starters, but if there are spots that are even, then you play another one.
"I didn't feel comfortable subbing for Mitch with a wet football on a wet field. But we will play Frank in this one. He's going to play.
"I have not played two centers except once at North Carolina when we kept getting guys hurt. We played four that day and we were down to our last one. But this is different. We have two that are very even and I think even the way they snap it is about the same. We've worked both of them a lot with Brandon and there aren't problems. Frank is going to play."
Wide receiver coach Michael Smith wants to play more against Nicholls, too. He said freshmen wide receivers JoJo Robinson and Kendrick Edwards continue to improve in practice, suggesting their time is close.
"I think they both are getting closer," Smith said. "We want to get them some reps, too."
Smith said there were good signs against Auburn of an improved passing game, but two key drops were disturbing.
"We had problems with drops last year and we thought we had improved past that," Smith said. "Keon Hatcher is beating himself up over (a dropped bomb). He had one of those early in camp and then finished with a great camp. He had been so consistent.
"He has come back and performed well in practice (this week). He did come back later in the game and made a great play on the sideline."
Smith said one of the positives against Auburn was the run blocking by the receivers.
"We can do better, but we did well in that area," he said. "We've improved there. Demetrius Wilson made two really nice plays, but he can improve on some details of his blocking."
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Fisherman's Ball is Nov. 16; Truscott up for Crow's Nest salute
LITTLE COMPTON — The Sakonnet community will mark the end of this summer season by celebrating the time-honored Fisherman's Ball on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 6-10 p.m. at the Sakonnet Point Club. The event, which is open to the public, will also celebrate this year's winner of the Crow's Nest Award, William "Ted" Truscott.
The Fisherman's Ball enjoys a rich history dating back to 1939. Life Magazine featured a pictorial of the event in October of 1940.
A highlight is the awarding of the Crow's Nest Award. This tradition, established anonymously in 1967, trumpets the Point's Citizen of the Year. The recipient must be a resident, employed at the Point, a fisherman, or regular visitor and have made a significant personal difference to the general wellbeing of the Sakonnet area.
The bronze award is mounted to the transom of an old skiff taken from the Fo'c's'le. The committee of 1967 created the bronze award featuring Ahab standing in the Crow's Nest looking through the long glass hoping to sight the great white whale — "We all spend some time in the 'crow's nest' in search of something." The Committee hoped the award would serve to recognize at least a few of those who keep their long glass in focus.
The award is permanently displayed at the entrance of the Sakonnet Point Club bar. It is not presented each year, only when the committee decides there is a worthy nominee.
Prior winners:
1967 Carl M. Wilcox
1968 William H. Gifford
1969 Eleanor F. Carroll
1971 Gus Bounakes
1972 James Blades
1973 Tony Parascandolo
1974 John Brayton
1975 Edward Brayton
1976 Ernest Rogers
1977 Harry Woodbury
1988 David Brayton
1989 Nina Blades
1990 Tom Haire
2000 Bud Phillips
2001 Jane Cabot
2003 Richard Rogers
2005 Gary Mataronas
2006 Peter Sullivan
2008 Trip Samson
2009 Brett Haire
2010 Friends of the Sakonnet Lighthouse
2012 Hope and Michael Hudner
This year's menu will feature a raw bar, a carving Station with prime rib and blackened pork loin, hors d'oeuvres, and a clam chowder station. Cost is $35, children under 12, $10. A cash bar will be available. To keep with tradition, guests are encouraged to come in nautical/fishing attire. Space is limited, — call (401) 635-2582 x406 early for tickets.


text: Monthly Archive:: March 2010 25 Mar 2010 Funeral Services for Angela Phillips — Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. By Sherry McKinney Calendar of Events, Featured News, Member News, Memorials 1 Comment 03/25/2010 — The funeral services for Angela Phillips, sister of long-time member, Darryl Phillips, will be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. The services will be at the Sugar Valley Baptist Church, 3200 Brisbane Street, Houston, TX 77051-4650. All Texas EquuSearch members are invited to attend, and wear your Texas EquuSearch shirts. Read More 25 Mar 2010 REMAINS IDENTIFIED: Angela Phillips, Houston, TX, 03/15/10 By Sherry McKinney Located Persons, Memorials 0 Comment 03/25/10 — On December 15, 2009, one of our long-time members, Darryl Phillips, was notified by the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office that his sister, Angela Phillips, was possibly in the morgue. On Monday, March 15, 2010, the Medical Examiner's Office positively identified Angela, which brings a 23-year search for her to an end. Angela's Read More 24 Mar 2010 "Endless Search" Banquet and Charity Auction, April 8, 2010 By Sherry McKinney About TXEQ, Calendar of Events, Featured News, TXEQ News 0 Comment The First Annual "Endless Search" Banquet and Charity Auction benefiting Texas EquuSearch will be held on April 8, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. The Event is being held at Campbell Hall, Pasadena Fairgrounds, 7902 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Texas 77507. Celebrity Guests include Beth Holloway, Don Clark and Judith McNaught. The Master of Ceremonies will be Lisa Read More 24 Mar 2010 FOUND SAFE: Donald Ray Edwards, 53 Yrs., Houston, TX, 02/14/10 By Sherry McKinney Found Safe, Located Persons 0 Comment 03/26/10 — We are happy to report that Donald Ray Edwards has been found safe. Donald Ray Edwards, age 53, was last seen on Saturday, February 6, 2010 in the Fallbrook area of Houston, TX. He was last heard from on Sunday, February 14, 2010. Donald was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans Read More 23 Mar 2010 FOUND SAFE: Curtis Dunigan, 31 Yrs., Houston, TX, 03/13/10 By Sherry McKinney Found Safe, Located Persons 0 Comment 03/29/10 — We are happy to report that Curtis Dunigan has been found safe. 03/23/10 — Curtis Dunigan, III, age 31, was last seen on Saturday, March 13, 2010, around 3:00 a.m. in the area of Gessner and U.S. 59 in Southwest Houston, TX. Curtis was last seen wearing blue or black jeans and a Read More 22 Mar 2010 Slideshow No. 2: Bayou Belles and Beauxs Gala By Sherry McKinney Featured News, Slideshows 0 Comment 03/22/10 — A few more pictures from the Gala. Read More 22 Mar 2010 FOUND DECEASED: Clara "Patty" Bynog, 46 Yrs., Natchitoches, LA, 12/13/09 By Sherry McKinney Located Persons, Memorials 0 Comment 03/22/10 — We were notified by the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office on Saturday, 03/20/10, that what appears to be the body of Patty Bynog has been located. A positive identification is pending from the Medical Examiner's Office. Please keep Patty's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers during their time of grief. 12/31/09 — Read More 19 Mar 2010 Slideshow No. 1: Bayou Belles and Beauxs Gala By Sherry McKinney Featured News, Slideshows 0 Comment 03/19/10 — The following slideshow is comprised of photos taken by Texas EquuSearch volunteers who attended the Gala. As you can see, everyone had a great time! Please enjoy the slideshow. Read More 18 Mar 2010 MISSING: Jennifer Andersen, 33 Yrs., Omaha, NE, 03/09/10 By Sherry McKinney Cold Cases, Missing Persons 0 Comment 03/18/10 — Jennifer Andersen, age 33, was last seen on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at around 1:00 a.m., at her apartment near 120th and Blondo Streets in Omaha, NE. Her car, a maroon 2001 Chevrolet Lumina, License Plate No. RJK303, was found on 3/15/2010 near Rick's Boatyard Cafe on Riverfront Drive in Omaha. Jennifer's wallet Read More 17 Mar 2010 MISSING: Laura Vogel, 43 Yrs., Maui, Hawaii, 02/2/10 By Sherry McKinney Cold Cases, Missing Persons 0 Comment 03/17/10 — Laura Vogel, age 43, was last seen on Sunday, February 21, 2010, in the Pauwela Lighthouse area of Maui's North Shore. Laura is thought to have been wearing dark gray sweatpants and a dusky blue t-shirt. She was traveling in a 1991 Silver Ford Aerostar, which has been located. Please call the Maui Read More 17 Mar 2010 FOUND SAFE: Torry Williams, 28 Yrs., Houston, TX, 03/10/10 By Sherry McKinney Found Safe, Located Persons 0 Comment 03/17/10 — Tomorrow's search has been CANCELED — Torry Williams was found safe earlier tonight. We would like to thank all of our volunteers who searched for Torry today. Their dedication and hard work is always appreciated. 03/17/10 — The search will continue tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for Torry Williams. The Command Center will be located at Read More 16 Mar 2010 Funeral Services for Francis Murphy — Father of Mike "Murph" Murphy By Sherry McKinney Featured News 0 Comment 03/16/10 — The father of Mike "Murph" Murphy passed away last weekend. Francis Murphy was recently diagnosed with cancer. The funeral will be held tomorrow, March 17, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. — Forest Lawn Park Cemetery, 21620 Gulf Freeway, Webster, TX 77598-6417, (281) 332-3111. Please keep the Murphy family and friends in your prayers during Read More 16 Mar 2010 Thank you to the Bayou Belles and Beauxs By Sherry McKinney Calendar of Events, Featured News, Get Involved, TXEQ News 0 Comment 03/16/10 — We want to extend our sincere thank you and appreciation to Angeline Auzeene, Founder and President of the Bayou Belles and Beauxs, for organizing their First Annual Charity Gala benefiting Texas EquuSearch. We also want to thank all of the Belles who so generously gave their time and hard work. Additionally, we want Read More 13 Mar 2010 FOUND SAFE: Harold Coleman, 76 Yrs., Port Arthur, TX, 03/12/10 By Sherry McKinney Found Safe, Located Persons 0 Comment 03/13/10 — We are happy to report that Harold Coleman was fouund safe today in Port Arthur, TX. He was transported by ambulance to the hospital for observation. We would like to thank everyone who responded so quickly. The family expressed their heartfelt appreciation to all the volunteers who helped bring Mr. Coleman home safe. Read More 08 Mar 2010 FOUND DECEASED: Douglas Schantz, 54 Yrs., New Orleans, LA, 03/05/10 By Sherry McKinney Located Persons, Memorials 0 Comment 03/10/10 — The funeral for Douglas Schantz will be held Saturday, March 13, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. — St. Peter's Methodist Church, 20775 Kingsland Boulevard, Katy, Texas 77450. Please continue to keep Douglas' family and friends in your prayers. 03/09/10 — We are very sad to report that what appears to be the body of Read More


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Treasurer Joe Hockey has played down a report the government is preparing to abandon key budget cuts to pensions and family benefits.
News Corp is reporting the government is facing a $9 billion black hole because it has shelved its plans to index future family and pension payments, which are being blocked by Labor, the Greens and the Palmer United Party.
But Mr Hockey on Sunday appeared to be still clinging to hope that he could strike a deal with enough senators, as seen with previously contested measures such as the mining tax and changes to financial governance laws which were passed with the support of PUP senators.
"No, don't believe everything you read," he told reporters at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Cairns on Sunday.
"I've seen lots of speculation about what we were going to do including from participants who said one thing to the media one day and on the very same day did something opposite to that," the Treasurer said. But Mr Hockey refused to confirm or deny whether the government had struck a deal with Labor on means-testing family benefits for families earning more than $100,000 a year. "I'm not going to speculate," he said before ending his media conference.
The opposition's spokeswoman on families, Jenny Macklin, says the report, if true, constitutes a "humiliating backdown" for the government.
"I hope that the government is finally listening and will now scrap these unfair changes that will be so harsh on so many Australians," she told reporters in Melbourne.
"Labor has fought very hard against these changes and we've stood with pensioners and with families, with young people to stop these harsh cuts going through the Senate."


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My singular focus every day is on keeping and creating more good-paying jobs here in north central Indiana.
To keep jobs, I will continue to:
* Oppose trade deals that fail to protect American workers
* Close tax loopholes that make it easier to ship American jobs overseas
* Combat currency manipulation by the Chinese government that hurts American manufacturers' ability to compete
Since coming to Congress, I've fought to keep the over 21,000 auto industry jobs in our district, including the thousands of Chrysler and Delphi jobs in Kokomo. Additionally, I'm proud to represent and support the RV and manufactured housing industries, industries that are bouncing back with increased sales and are continuing to re-hire displaced workers. Also, I continue to support the efforts of AM General and the hard-working employees at their Mishawaka facility to keep production going for the top-notch Humvees that transport and protect our men and women in uniform.
To create jobs, I will continue to:
* Support tax relief for small businesses so they are able to invest in equipment and new hires
* Defend American intellectual property rights so Hoosiers' ingenuity is protected
* Promote adult education and skills training so our workforce will be able to compete in a 21st Century global economy
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For the sake of family, of upper-class success and continuation, marriages are often arranged between two families of said 'good blood'. There is no age of eligibility for the bachelors; boys may chose marriage at the age of sixteen, though this likelihood has not occurred in a while. It is unlikely to find a boy announcing his Selection below the age of sixteen, unless he has been reared that way or of an advanced sexuality, or marriage desire.
Most families – such as the Costellos – try to enforce marriage on their sons as soon as they turn eighteen. This way, they can ensure the greater propensity of their line. Longer moments for repeated copulation, leading to more offspring. However, the chooser nearly always has the final say when.
That doesn't, however, stop the personal element of Selection; Phillip and Benjamin themselves were virtually blackmailed into love by their father and mother.
When a man accepts that he will marry, word will reach the Pages – and, through them, the women and their parents looking for a moneyed man.
Of course, dependent on the family, weddings tend to be either high-key or low-key events; with both these cases, the minimal numbers of non-family-member guests are invited, due to security and exclusivity, though this does not extend to staff on the wedding: cooks, photographers, reporters, or others designed for the specific case of enhancing the family's rapport. Ironically, a lot of weddings are devoted to a family's image, rather than the couple themselves. This is one of the reasons Aidelle and Phillip's wedding was so special: they defied their parents' insistence on a large wedding for a personal one that meant they were able to remain together and raise their daughter without away from the turmoil of war.
And that resonated well with the lesser classes.
After the actual wedding, it is expected that where the newly married couple will live depends on the new husband's role in his family chain. The eldest son often takes over the running of the house unless he can provide an astute reason why his parents shouldn't 'help' with his marriage. Stuart Costello only left to buy his house in the country after his father mortified him.
The younger sons are given more freedom. Depending on the House, they will no doubt be encouraged to stay at the family home or Mansion; on the other hand, youngest sons tend to be encouraged to start their own House, if they have the inheritance. Although most sons tend to marry in age order, the son who marries first might well be considered 'eldest' by leges familiae (see 'justice' under 'careers').
In a contrast to the well-publicised – and, arguably, choice-less – marriages of the upper- and middle-classes, a lot of lower-class marriages are for love – for, what money is to be gained by marrying the right person of the same lower-class?
Zoey Carnassus' parents themselves are a best example of middle 21st Century modernisation and the change of marriage practises started by the lower-classes, but that would later spread to the upper-classes (as with the better acceptance of illegitimate children and illegitimate intercourse. As a lower-class couple, they had no reason to marry even when Jae discovered she was with child.
Nevertheless, marriage is meant to join together two Houses with children and the future.
For most upper- and middle-class families, the number of offspring produced is down to choice, though any birth-control is natural. In the time of Percival Senior, the upper class were expected to bear at least five children (deaths notwithstanding), as proof of their worth and good blood.
However, most families in the next generations saw the complexities of more children, though the aim is to produce an heir, a spare, and at least one girl. Couples must balance their own desires for gender preference, and do what is best for their Name.


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Automated Device Created That Improves Understanding Of How Antibiotic Resistance Evolves At The Genetic Level
This antibiotic resistance is an urgent public health threat that a team of researchers from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, and Harvard Medical School and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., aim to stop. Their approach is based on an automated device they created that yields a new understanding of how antibiotic resistance evolves at the genetic level. The team will present its work at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS), held Feb. 2-6, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Called the "morbidostat," the device grows bacteria in various concentrations of antibiotic. This enabled researchers to identify the concentrations at which the antibiotics stopped working and the bacteria became resistant to therapy. Next, they targeted key genes involved in creating the drug-resistant states. Their approach documented real-time changes in genes that gave bacteria an advantage in evolving to "outwit" antibiotics.
Knowledge at the gene level can be applied to the molecular design of the next generation of bacteria-killing antibiotics.
"Morbidostat is designed to evolve bacteria in conditions comparable with clinical settings," explains Erdal Toprak of Sabanci University. "Combined with next generation genome sequencing technologies, it is possible to follow the evolution of resistance in real time and identify resistance-conferring genetic changes that accumulate in the bacterial genome."
Data show an unusual survival profile of the common bacteria they used, Escherichia coli. "We identified striking features in the evolution of resistance to the antibiotic trimethoprim," Toprak says. It was these unusual features that helped them isolate the gene involved in conferring antibiotic resistance through multiple mutations.
The team's next steps will involve determining how this genetic information might one day be applied to drug design to develop new antibiotic therapies.
Presentation #3390-Pos, "Evolution of antibiotic resistance through a multi-peaked adaptive landscape," will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Hall C. ABSTRACT: http://tinyurl.com/bfcke65
This news release was prepared for the Biophysical Society (BPS) by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
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la Allison had 23 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead Wekiva to a 59-48 victory over Harmony in the Florida 7A girls basketball championship on Saturday.
Wekiva (26-5) took a 13-8 lead at the end of the first period and never trailed but needed to hold off a spirited rally from Harmony (29-3) in a wild fourth period.
A 3-pointer at the buzzer from Yolizma Cupidan gave Wekiva a 36-25 advantage through three periods and the lead was extended to 13 points early in the fourth.
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The mermaid slowly slithered around the corner, her upper human body carried atop an eel-like tail. The mermaid's figure filled the tunnel, her head only inches from ceiling and her wide shoulders nearly scraping the walls. There would be no running past it.
Like Shireen, the creature had seaweed hair. However, unlike the wide and greenish sea-weed that flowed from the sea-girl's scalp, the mermaid's hair was a black tangle that stuck out in all directions.
Scaled armour covered the torso and stomach while a chain skirt hung over the area where the tail and the torso merged. In it's large hands, it held the shaft of a very wicked looking trident.
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All the training, all the preparation that she had done with Shireen over the past week had amounted to nothing. The mermaid smirked and drew back the trident again.
Anna closed her eyes, she knew she was about to die.
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I personally happen to love my CLP-115. It was a huge improvement over my precious electric Korg and hideous non-weighted keys. It's no replacement for my Steinway at my parent's house, but, you cannot find a more realistic feeling electric out there for the price. I'm finally selling mine to upgrade to a newer model with more bells and whistles, but I've truly enjoyed mine while I've had it. It's great sound, incredibly realistic in piano, and the other 8 or so sounds are also true to sound, but knowing how to switch them takes practice, in fact, changing any setting is very difficult. Do not buy a used one without the manual. It is very easy to accidentally transpose a song while playing if the right notes are enter in succession. Still, it has very few cons to its many pros. And of you have a small space, or nosey neighbors, the headphone jack is a lifesaver.
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