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Faith Hubbard's avatar

You did it!!! YAY!! I love hearing/reading your stories! I knew you could do it! Enjoy everything you do as long as you can!! I miss doing a lot of things now at my age of 80!!! Love you!!!

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you so much Faith for reading along. I'm happy you enjoyed it. I also appreciate your message here to enjoy everything as long as I can. Great reminder and I can't believe you are 80! Keep at those puzzles. :) Have a great day and love you.

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The True Ish's avatar

Great story and touching poem and of course congratulations on your race. Very motivating beginning the next training season.

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you so much Howard! Cheering you on as you begin your next training season...WOOHOO!

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Amie McGraham's avatar

Congratulations! That which doth not kill us, only makes us stronger (paraphrasing here 🥹)

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Oh thank you Amie!! Yes! I hear ya. Hope to see you later today.

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Beth Wild's avatar

Congratulations! I knew you would finish the race. What a great story, thanks for writing it out this week. It's amazing how the easy runs are remembered, but the hard ones are revered in our memories.

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you Beth for reading. I'm happy I was able to write this one down. I agree with what you said here—"but the hard ones are revered in our memories." True for me too.

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Clark Rose's avatar

God and your sense of humor will get you through whatever challenges you may encounter...🙏🏻🙌🙏🏻

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you Clark!

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Clark Rose's avatar

Julie, I am both exhausted and ecstatic as I feel I ran all 26.2 miles with you. Saturated to the bone but levitating in my heart. Your mortal body houses a beautiful, eternal Soul. God Bless....

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Clark, what a beautiful and kind message. And looks like your day is off to a great start, you already ran 26.2 miles..HA! Thank you so much. God Bless you and yours.

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Claudette Henson's avatar

What courage!!

Just Wow

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you for reading Claudette and boy was I happy to cross the finish. I learned a lot about myself.

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

You made it! 🙌 Way to go!

This week I've been enjoying the story of your marathon experience immensely - thank you so much for sharing it! I needed my hanky to get through today's post - but they're happy tears! ⭐️

Hoping to make it to Write Together Friday, although I'm not quite sure yet how my day will look. 😊

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you so much Rebecca for reading along and this sweet message. Yes the write session is tomorrow not today— I wrote that by mistake. Hope it works for you but if not see you next time. :)

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Such a pleasure! And gosh, actually I hadn't noticed the mistake - it's in my diary for tomorrow! Hoping to be home in time. 😁

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

oh good! LOL. :)

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