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| The one that started it all! ...it has created a monster. |
Welcome! And thank you for caring enough about my ridiculous hobby to get this far into the blog.
Many heartfelt thanks to those friends and family members - especially the world's most patient husband, Will - for all the annoyances I've caused over the years in pursuit of this lofty goal. Countless times my loved ones have pulled their cars to a screeching halt on a busy Italian road, or made a quick U-turn in a city with which we're unfamiliar, because I saw out of the corner of my eye what might have been an oversized ice cream cone but turned out to be a large woman wearing a pastel-colored shirt.
They've stopped what they were doing so I could take ten minutes to find the best lighting angle on a particularly nice-looking specimen, and taken time out of their schedules to accompany me on food-hunting trips so that I would have a photographer.
Most importantly, they never once insinuated that what I was doing was not only sort of silly, as hobbies go, but also kind of a waste of time.
...Well, maybe once. Or twice. But still.
