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Your father, from the afterlife, must appreciate that you note both his 8-year presence and his 8-year absence.

Some people opt not to be there when someone beloved or essential passes away.

It seems to me a prescient option for the younger ages who perhaps would be even more damaged by nightmares from patient pain than by sorrow over not having been there, correct?

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My experience with stray sentients is that they live harmoniously with other sentients.

My Gusty (short for Augusta) -- before leaving outdoor for indoor life -- always left some food for other area sentients, such as an orphaned opossum and an orphaned rooster and other feline sentients.

So domesticated primates harmoniously with domesticated bird, cat and dog sentients seem a believable scenario.

(But should there be a hierarchy, who of domesticated primates versus domesticated traditionals would be the authority figure [the equivalent of top cat or top dog or top monkey ;-D])?

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Vatican City has among its residents Pope Francis, correct?

Might Vatican City have cooperative or separate administration from the Vatican?

(So would it be more difficult for leaked information regarding Pope Francis than his predecessors?)

Butterfly gardens are so beautifully beneficial and benevolent!

Do Land Down Under-ers -- ;-D -- ever do moon, moth, night gardens?

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The film Utama (from Runa Shimi ["human-being language"; known incorrectly from the Spanish conquest as quechua, "to steal"] utama, "our home") has a llama-sacrificing scene.

That Bolivian-altiplano (from Spanish alto plano, "high plane [= plateau]") culture honors animal and plant sentients.

So that film set might be among the rare exceptions to on-set animal abuse.

Stephen Hawking said in his last book, Brief answers to the big questions, that it should be on human consciences for how human beings mistreat animal sentients.

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My tendency in a volunteer situation is toward a written agreement even as this particular volunteer activity -- among people who love horse sentients -- makes me regard verbal agreements as honestly, professionally done and enforced.

I think that the etymology is reasonable, so point is a credible answer.

The Vatican is a place prone to leaks of information, so some people get to know in advance.

Thanks again for thefairytales link at the 8th-subheading ending about the Substacks alternative to Blogspot!

The Beauty and the Beast illustrations amaze me with the wide range of beastly interpretations of the fairy-tale Beast.

Perhaps the two bear examples by John Hassall (1886-1948) draw me the most because of their amiability.

Might there be any information as to which illustrator numbers as premier interpreter of beastly profiles?

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But the top administrators in the Vatican probably get advance notice of an abdication, correct?

It's not like the Pope mentions that he plans to say "Hello (or Good day or Good morning)" when he shows up for the crowds even as he tells his fellow Vatican-ites nothing about it working in a surprise abdication, correct?

(My apologies if the above scenario would sound a bit facetious, something I would not want thought papal-ly or Vatican-ly.)

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But online sources give me the answer finally after much digging.

The Oxford English Dictionary only has the answer even as it holds it back from me since the sign-in access is not for the Unitedstatesian public library that I list ;-{.

Pickwick family history on the Ancestry site nevertheless mentions as its etymology from Old English pīc ("point") and wīc ("dwelling, specialized farm").

So how might it seem of Pickmere as ("[on-the-point] lake")?

That comes down to personal choice and has no bearing on how that camera is used.

A very useful tool and if it helps, highly recommended

I can say that, yes, I am and it still gives me problems even now.

No, not as far as I know.