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The Best of 2006 -- and a Contest!

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Mon, 2007-01-01 13:36.

Happy New Year everyone!
Here we are at the end of a busy and hopefully happy holiday, and looking forward to a new year. In celebration, I thought I’d do two fun things in my blog: talk about some of my favorite stories of 2006 (movies, TV, books, it’s all game) and run a contest.
As of the winner's announcement above, posted 1/5/07, the contest is over, but the conversation lives on -- feel free to continue to post on this thread...
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Best of 2006 Contest WINNERS

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Fri, 2007-01-05 17:06.

And the winner of the $25 Amazon gift certificate and a signed copy of Shirley Jump's The Bachelor Preferred Pastry is:
MELISSA L! Congrats! Melissa, email me to let me know how you'd like to receive your certificate, electronically or paper.
Second and Third Place winners are....
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