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French Letter Dating 1811…Giveaway

French Letter Dating 1811...Giveaway

 

 

Yes a giveaway…
This old French letter dating
1811 is the prize.

 

 

 

 

French Letter Dating 1811...Giveaway

Click the photo to enlarge.

 

Two hundred and one years old.
It has been around, and hasn't worried
about being delicate, sensitive, fragile, or loose.

I wonder if the person who wrote this letter ever imagined a future like this?

 

 

 

 

French Letter Dating 1811...Giveaway

 

 

Signed sealed and delivered.

Kept.

Held.

Tossed to the side,

Escaped fire, rain and wind.

 

 

 

 

 

French Letter Dating 1811...Giveaway

 

The Giveaway:

A Random winner will be selected tomorrow, French time at ten in the morning.
Leave a comment telling me three things on your "Bucket List".

 

 

 

 

French Letter Dating 1811...Giveaway

 

 

Three things on my Bucket List are:

1) To visit Paris with my nieces and have dinner together at Jules Verne, at the Eiffel Tower.

2) To volunteer at the orphanage in Chiang Mai.

3) To compose a book of brocante beauties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

105 responses to “French Letter Dating 1811…Giveaway”

  1. Eva Comeaux

    Some of my bucket list items:
    1. To live in the French countryside someday soon.
    2. To win the lottery.
    3. To be the kind of Mom that guarantees I’ll be adored by my son when he is an adult.
    Eva

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  2. Deb

    Good morning! Lovely letter… can’t imagine that something I have written would be someone’s treasure 200 years from now! 3 things on my (ever-growing) bucket list: 1) climb and visit Machu Pichu 2) make a decent piecrust from scratch 3) volunteer as a child advocate in the legal system. Things are in the works! xo Deb

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  3. Rosemary

    Three items on my bucket list are:
    1. To return to Paris and rent an
    apartment for a month or two.
    2. To take a cruise
    3. To see my grandsons graduate from college (they are 9 and 6 right now)

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  4. Betsy

    Hmmm, bucket list, I am not sure I have one, or want one, another thing to live up to, or not…
    1)to be happy with where I am in life and love. 2)to continue to grow and be an outward facing person as long as possible. 3) to enjoy the dance!

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  5. smee

    First off, Hooray for bucket lists, I’d love to see that book of yours!
    1. To explore the southern parts of Italy for at least a month.
    2. To paint an intensely good painting, a real piece of art.
    3. To master that doggoned French macaroon. I have a good handle on it, but really. To have the technique so down that *every* batch came out with feet and beautiful consistency, well that would put me on the moon!

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  6. Merry

    1. To dance at granddaughter Emme’s wedding some day … she just turned 8 yesterday!
    2. To go back to France (and Italy, too) and start the antique importing business that I’ve long wanted,
    3. To go up in a balloon and do the champagne celebration!
    … a few things from a longish list!

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  7. Rae Lange

    Hi! The 3 things on my Bucket List are:
    1. Visit France
    2. Retire (then visit France)
    3. Move to Florida (TN is too cold!)
    Have a great weekend and stay warm!!!
    Rae

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  8. Ione

    My bucket list:
    1. To be able to fly again so I can visit my half sister in Britain.
    2. Watch a sunset with my husband on St. Barts while drinking a glass of wine.
    3. To be at my great granddaughter, Alyssa’s wedding.(She is only 3 so means I have a lot of living to do)

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  9. Hillary

    1) to go back to Paris but with my whole family for at least a month.
    2) run my own business and be able to create art and jewelry everyday.
    3) have a house in the mountains so we can runaway when we want too.

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  10. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    My “list” of top 3 items:
    1) Visit New Zealand and Australia; stay for a month
    2) Own a little red sportscar before I am too old and stiff to be able to get in/out of it, and
    3) Take care of my health so that I can hold and play with my first grandchild (which is a ways off as son has yet to find that “special” someone!)

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  11. Evelyn in NYC

    I just wrote out my Bucket List a couple of weeks ago and have decided I am going to make a Bucket List Scrapbook – I’m going to make all of my pages and then add the pictures as I complete each item on my list. It should be fun. Here are my TOP 3:
    1 – Shop the Brocante in France
    2 – Drive to Alaska
    3 – Pan for Gold and Mine for Gemstones/Diamonds
    What a fun giveaway!

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  12. Jody

    I love the idea of a bucket list! Mine would be:
    1. To learn to speak French.
    2. To volunteer time to a cause close to my heart.
    3. To visit Africa.

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  13. colleen

    Thee things on my bucket list:
    1. To show my husband the beauty of Venice. He has never been.
    2. To live in Paris for a year.
    3. To be able to say what I want to say in French.

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  14. colleen

    Three, that is three things. Ha ha

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  15. Erin Perry

    1. To enjoy my 60’s (which just began 2 days ago) as much as I did my 50’s.
    2. To visit Provence and take a side trip to the Cinque Terre.
    3. To take an overnight train trip in a sleeper car.
    Erin in Morro Bay

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  16. pam

    On my list:
    1. See my daughter receive her doctorate degree in May.
    2. Travel to Paris with my daughter in the autumn of 2012.
    3. Become fluent in French and move to a small village in France where I’ll meet a French man and marry, and live happily ever after.

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  17. Laurie SF

    1. The World Cup in Brazil. Copa!
    2. Surf in Bali.
    3. Pending… (I get to visit you in April.)

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  18. Ed in Willows

    1 – Make my wife happy
    2 – Have one of my photos make it into National Geographic
    3 – Travel around the United States on a motorcycle

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  19. Mo in KCMO

    On Mo’s Big Bucket list:
    1. Wallow in my wonderful retirement years
    2. Live in a foreign country for at least one year
    3. Produce an altered book of my life, full of photographs, drawings, and bits of ephemera from my 65 happy years on earth

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  20. Jennie

    Thanks Corey! This is is a great question and one I haven’t considered before – I am excited to put my answers out into the universe so they might happen some day!
    1. To explore France with my children and husband and revel in the experience of it (I haven’t been before)
    2. To buy a very old house and make it beautiful once again, complete with a huge garden with big trees that rustle in the wind
    3. To fill the void in my life by finding my passion and running with it, as you have done with the brocante

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  21. Debra

    Hi, C!
    1) To explore Paris! (which I think is finally happening this fall because of my volunteer efforts on a Sister Cities Program. [C, I had to find a way to get there:)!]
    2) To let go of all the extra stuff & live peacefully with joy without money worries.
    3) I would love to join you in volunteering at the orphanage in Thiland – from the moment I read that post, I have been thinking about a way to make it happen.

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  22. Debra

    Pam . . .I love number 3, and am taking 2 French lessons/wk. I share in the rest of your dream #3, but I can let my husband know!
    Also, I am going to Paris in October – when are you going?

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  23. Bobette K. Godding

    Thanks for making us do this “finally”
    1) take my daughter to Europe (Paris is for sure)
    2) visit a national park in the US
    3) start a journal

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  24. Tammy Hensley

    These are three of the things on my “bucket list:”
    1. To visit France with my husband.
    2. To be a mom (we’re beginning the process of adoption as we’ve been trying to have our own child without success).
    3. To be a licensed fabric designer.

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  25. christine

    The three top things on my bucket list are
    1. Visit India/Nepal
    2. Walk on the Great Wall of China
    3. Learn to Flaminco Dance in Seville
    Ha – all my dreams involve traveling and doing in other lands……….
    A lovely giveaway – thanks
    Christine

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  26. Rachel L

    I love old letters – wouldn’t it be fun to know all about the writer of that letter – history is so interesting.
    My top 3 things on my bucket list are:
    1. To learn to sail a yacht.
    2. To learn a foreign language
    3. To write a NZ novel.

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  27. Kathie B

    How lucky am I! I’ve already achieved the Big Three on my bucket list from 15 years ago:
    1. To learn Portuguese — not that language-learning isn’t truly a lifelong pursuit, but I had to start out not knowing a single word of the language, unless you count “piranha” and “bossa nova” (LOL!).
    Check!
    2. To locate distant cousins in the Azores, then visit there in order to meet them, and to research my genealogy in the Regional Archives further. Again, there’s so much more I could do, to track my lineage back further, but at least I was able to answer my cousins’ and my most immediate questions.
    Check!
    3. To visit France in order to see Paris and Provence. But wouldn’t Farmboy Husband and I just love to make a return visit?!? (Corey, don’t say I didn’t warn you and Yann).
    Check!

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  28. Jacqueline

    Three things on my bucket list, hmmm….
    1. Write a novel and actually have it published and it
    be sucessful
    2. Spend a year in Southern France, and travel whenever I want to Italy or Paris.
    3. Be really good at something artistic, knitting, drawing, etc.

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  29. barb

    my list
    to learn to weave
    to finish one of my quilt tops this year
    to win a french letter

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  30. Lorelei

    Oh the Bucket List, woe is me, only three…
    1. To get printed by Somerset Press.
    2. To celebrate each new day with family, friends, and pets.
    3. To do art everyday of my retirement.

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  31. Brenda

    Oh, I am drooling over that letter! Who knew a handwritten letter could bring such wonder and excitement?!
    My bucket list:
    1. To study French in France.
    2. To see the Northern Lights
    3. To travel to the Caribbean.
    P.S. I LOVE ‘Ed in Willows’ bucket list number 1, Go Ed!

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  32. Laura Gates

    Such a lovely letter. I love penmanship, pens and ephemera. It is thrilling to know that in this day of iphones, pads, blackberry, computers and more that a letter could survive so long and bring about such pleasure. Makes me smile.
    After surviving cancer that bucket list is even more important:
    1. To live a peaceful love filled life.
    2. To write a book with of all my food, people and travel adventures.
    3. To be a good friend and to give back to those who are having a harder time than I did. Cancer is a bitch but I won so I want to help others do the same and then I figure everything else will fall into place.
    Laura

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  33. Chris Wittmann

    The letter is beautiful!
    My Bucket list? Here are a few items:
    1. to actively pursue a publisher for the children’s audio book my sister and I composed and illustrated
    2. to finish my new website (ah yes!!)
    3. to stop being so hard on myself for not looking 25 anymore, especially when I’m about to turn 60 🙂

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  34. Krista G.

    1.) To show in a world championship horse show
    2.) To get married (it’s quite a feat these days!)
    3.) To build my own charitable business

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  35. Confessions of a Plate Addict

    Oooh…an antique French letter…I would treasure it since I am a retired French teacher! On my bucket list:
    1. To see the Bayeux tapestry
    2. To visit Pike’s Fish Market in Seattle, Washington
    3. To learn to play “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” on the banjo!
    Meeting Jacques Cousteau and going aboard the Calypso were on my list, but neither is possible now. 🙁

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  36. momof5

    Debra, #3. Me too and we did last month. I would love to spend a few weeks there. Any takers?

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  37. Stella

    1. Visit Vietnam
    2. Take up a cause
    3. Be slim
    4. Help Corey with her book

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  38. momof5

    1. Visit Tibet
    2. Open a bakery/antique shop
    3. Get my “book” published

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  39. susanc

    Three items on my Bucket List:
    1. To swim with dolphins,
    2. To have one of my photos published and
    3. To be sucessful in selling my jewelry.
    Thank you for the opportunity to win this precious love letter!

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  40. Sue Young

    Another retired French teacher here who is also lusting after this precious letter!thanks for the chance,Corey!
    My bucket list:
    1. to visit China,the Galapogos and Machu Pichu
    2. to learn fluent Italian
    3. to learn to meditate

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  41. Niki

    1. Visit Naples, Italy and work along side an artist sculpting creche figures in their workshop. Figures like the ones on the Angel Tree at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.
    2. Open a tiny store that sells French & Italian antiques along with my clothing designs and creche figures.
    3. To daily show gratitude to God and others around me for the blessings I have been given.

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  42. Becky F

    1. To see my children graduate from college and live healthy, purpose filled lives.
    2. To visit Provence and stay at LaMadone in the Renaissance Apartment. (I’ll check this one off in April)!
    3. To dunk a basketball.

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  43. Marilyn from Chico, Ca

    l. To read all of the books I’ve accumulated.
    2. To age gracefully.
    3. To patch my bucket so that it will hold
    3 more wishes.

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  44. martina

    To visit you.
    To be more patient with my Mother, who is having aging problems. Things have to be repeated many times before she remembers and she is not as spry as she used to be.
    To appreciate the little daily blessings every day and stop being so anxious and worried all the time.

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  45. Amylia Grace

    Amylia’s Top 3 Bucket Listers
    1. To be a mom
    2. To laugh gut-bustingly with my twin sister and my “little” brother while on vacation together
    3. To hike through the rainforest with my love

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  46. Amylia Grace

    1. To be a mom
    2. To BBQ all summer long with my brother & sister and their/our families
    3. To publish my poetry with an esteemed publisher

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  47. Elaine Cameron

    Corey,
    I love your blog.. have been subscribed for years now. I so admire your ability to write from the heart.
    My bucket list is short but full to the brim with hope:
    1) to give more pleasure than pain
    2) to be loved eperdument fort, jusqu’a la mort
    3) to live without fear
    A bientot, j’espere.
    Lainey x

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  48. Joanna

    1. To marry.
    2. To be a mom, or to do something for orphans.
    3. To create a family empire of businesses.

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  49. Kay

    1. Find history of my grandmother who may have been adopted.
    2. To see Northern Lights
    3. To learn a foreign language; French and Spanish, and travel to Franch and Spain and Italy with special person in my life

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  50. LOUISE

    Never really thought about a bucket list but three things I would like
    1- go to disneyland
    2- live to see a cure for cancer
    3- go one day without anxiety
    not exactly in that order

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  51. anna

    1. To visit southern France for a month and go to a brocante
    2. To be greatful for all that I have
    3. To have enough confidence in starting an interior decorating business

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  52. Melissa

    A double thanks for the giveaway, and for asking an interesting question. I had fun reading through all the comments. I think you’ve just kick started my bucket list:
    1. Take a trip on the Orient Express.
    2. Visit New Zealand and see some of the places where they filmed Lord of the Rings.
    3. Get involved with a literacy program for kids and make a difference in a young life.
    Merci Beaucoup.

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  53. Brother Mathew

    1. To not,
    2. make a,
    3. bucket list.

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  54. Mahala

    1) To travel to Scotland and see my brother and see my three nephews, two of whom I’ve not met yet.
    2) Travel to Hawaii and search for treasures on the beach.
    3) Paint something beautiful.

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  55. Priscilla G

    Lovely letter and beautiful seal.
    On my list:
    1. To take my husband to my mother’s hometown in France and to finally visit Paris
    2. To live to see a cure for cancer…all cancer
    3. To enter each day with a grateful heart.

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  56. Barbara Snow

    From a purely selfish standpoint – here’s my bucketlist:
    1) Walk the Camino de Santiago de Campostela
    2) Learn to speak a second language fluently.
    3) Learn to play piano.

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  57. Jeannie

    A beautiful letter. My bucket list is never ending. As I check on item off, I add another. My ideas have changed as my body has aged, so I am glad I did the more physical ones first.
    1 – To visit England, Wales, and Norway to see where my ancestors lived.
    2 – To learn to draw and paint with watercolors.
    3 – To teach those who have never learned to create, how to play.

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  58. Gail

    Corey,
    You are so wonderful at inspiring creative responses to your blog posts, I was busy thinking of your 5 question post from the other day…. But now you mention the bucket list! Congrats on the pending photography trip to Venice. That was on my bucket list. My husband and I went a year ago for a long weekend and it was the most perfect fabulous trip. We flew direct into Marco Polo airport, took a water taxi to the Danielli Hotel (winter rates, a “bargain”) visited the Doges Palace, Peggy Guggenheim Palazzo, saw the Bellini’s at the Accademia….went to a salon performance of La Traviatta at the opera in Palazzo. Fab fab fab! Oh did I mention tea at Florians…. Bucket list perfection! The only “problem” is that I want to go back in a seriously bad way!
    Other bucket list items:
    1) visit cousins in Cape Town
    2) write that thinly veiled trashy novel
    3) Learn to play the ukulele
    Best, gg

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  59. Ann

    I love old letters….you really know how to bribe! Bucket list…
    1. Win Lottery
    2. Travel world – starting in Rome.
    3. Spend lots of time with my family who live in different states(USA. Stay warm.

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  60. becky up a hill

    Italy
    France
    Steele, North Dakota (ha)

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  61. Marilyn

    Last year I did something I didn’t even know was on my bucket list, but would love to do again: ziplining in Thailand. But the three I would share here is:
    1. Travel to Scandanavian countries
    2. Canal boat trip in France or England
    3. Hold a dear grandbaby in my arms.

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  62. Karinka Calhoun

    My Bucket List:
    1. To learn to write in cursive like old 18th Century French letters and documents
    2. To perfect my travel photo taking in order to make my own book of favorite places and architecture in La Belle France
    3. To learn to knit well enough to create a mohair sweater that could be worn by my friends and then to make each of them one in “their” color

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  63. Jill Flory

    1. to love my husband and girls unconditionally!
    2. to get all 3 of my girls homeschooled with a GOOD education.
    3.To turn sew a fine seam into a productive business.

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  64. Dianne in Boston

    Here’s mine:
    1. Visit Lithuania
    2. Live in Paris
    3. Make a comfortable living off m art

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  65. Marilyn

    This is great – made me start thinking about accomplishing some things on my list!
    1. Improve my Spanish so my in-laws actually understand what I’m saying!
    2. Go to Manchu Pichu.
    3. Get SCUBA-certified.

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  66. Sharon Penney-Morrison

    I think about working at the Orphanage in China.
    Come back to France and have lunch/shop with you.
    To live in Provence for a year.
    Oh, and to have a really old French letter!!! (smile)

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  67. Elizabeth

    1. To live abroad for an extended period of time
    2. To climb a 14er here in Colorado
    3. To finish a book

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  68. Brocante Girl

    Bucket List? Only if it’s a battered old zinc bucket found at the brocante!
    1. To go mudlarking, preferably on the Thames, or find a Victorian rubbish dump to explore.
    2. To regain the strength and facility I had at the piano as a teenager (when I so foolishly stopped taking lessons), and be brave enough to play a Chopin waltz or prelude or nocturne on a grand piano in an equally grand setting. A church would be perfect, but I’d need to convince everyone else to leave so I could play in peace.
    3. To go on a little mad brocanting with you, dear Corey, when I am next in France.

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  69. Carol L

    Three from my “wildest dreams” bucket list…
    1. Star in a Nancy Meyers film.
    2. Have front row seats under the Macy’s canopy for the Thanksgiving day parade.
    3. Go to Paris and eat in every single patisserie.

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  70. Marie

    1) Go to France with Coco!! 🙂
    2) Go to Hawaii
    3) Be a Billionare! ( or at least millionare)

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  71. Cheri

    1. meet you 2. see world peace 3. take my husband to Paris, France

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  72. Debbie Z.

    1. Travel to Europe for the first time and visit Cornwall, Provence, and Paris.
    2. Buy a Nikon D5000 camera and learn to take amazing pictures.
    3. Learn to play the guitar (a lifelong dream)so I can play old folk tunes, 70s rock songs, and songs to worship God out on my porch this summer…the bliss.

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  73. Liz Mathews

    1. See the aruroa borialis
    2. write a book
    3. drive across the country photographing the country
    Thanks for the chance 🙂

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  74. Kathy

    My bucket list:
    1. Learn to speak French – I started at school many years ago and I would love to learn again
    2. Visit my sister in England ( I am in Australia)
    3. Read all the books on my ‘Books to read’ list
    Kathy

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  75. Lorrie

    Three things on my bucket list:
    1. Stay married for at least 60 years (we’re at 35 this year)
    2. Take up painting. (Canvases not walls – I’ve done that!)
    3. Dance the tango expertly.

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  76. kurt

    i love bucket lists, but i deplore the name! but i love is to cross them off the list. i call it my life list.
    1. stay overnight in the ice hotel in sweden.
    2. explore the cinque terra visting each of the five villages and staying a night in each.
    3. but my ultimate check on the list is to celebrate our 25th anniversary(4.5 years to go)at colombe d’or in saint paul de vence.

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  77. Franca Bollo

    1. Start a bucket list.
    2. Collect all the letters I’ve ever written.
    3. Burn aforementioned letters.

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  78. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=537723040

    My life list…
    1. Read your book on brocantes!
    2. Make healthier choices for eating.
    3. Spending less time in cold snowy weather.
    Love the giveaway….dj

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  79. Kathryn H

    1. Get over my flying issues…. and go to Paris.
    2. Find my modern day prince who would send me a handwritten love letter.
    3. SHOP SHOP SHOP FOR BROCANTE….. UNTIL IT HURTS.

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  80. Christine

    1. Be able to walk again for more than 10 minutes without a cane (looking at surgery).
    2. To have the last of my family (1 person) care if I live or die.
    3. To grow old within a loving family, like my Danish Gr. Grandma (1866-1961) and be as happy.

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  81. Julie M ~ The Little Red Shop

    All I know is that my bucket list is filled with chocolate.
    The End,
    : )
    Julie M.

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  82. A Watson

    1. Visit France, especially the lavender fields.
    2. Volunteer for an school in Uganda.
    3. Write a children’s book.

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  83. NancyO.

    The letter is wonderful!
    My list:
    1) another trip to England
    2) a visit to Denmark
    3)to move back to my hometown.
    Thanks!

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  84. Kathy Barrick

    You do make us think!
    My bucket list:
    1. Spend a year in Alaska,
    2. Spend a year in France,
    3. To create jewelry for the rich and famous!
    Dream big I say!

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  85. Nadine Wong

    Without a doubt
    #1 to travel to the south of France and fully embrace it’s culture and visit as many French brocantes as possible.
    #2 to LIVE A LIFE AND LIVE IT WELL
    #3 to have ‘art time’ in every day.

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  86. Tongue in Cheek

    Hi Marie
    (My niece, Brother Mathew’s daughter)
    Since we both have one of the same on our bucket list it has gotta happen!!!
    Aunt Cocoxxxxxxxx

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  87. Tongue in Cheek

    Hi Marilyn
    Number three is one of mine too!!
    c

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  88. Jeanne

    I like that you want to volunteer at the orphanage.
    That is so beautiful indeed.
    Love and hugs

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  89. Tongue in Cheek

    Hi M
    Your list will be added to mine.
    I especially agree with number three.
    I never thought of that, but it is so true. If our buckets are able we can hold and believe in our dreams until they are ripe enough to bloom.
    C.

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  90. Charlotte Le Den

    After much uhmming and aahhing, here are mine:
    1- Go skydive
    2- Live in Asia/Australia for a few years
    3- Go on a road trip for a few weeks/months through Canada/US/Cental/Latin America (or all of them!)

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  91. LibbyWNZ

    Martina, I understand your hearts cry – just love,love,love your Mum where she is & for who she is….. your darling Mum.

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  92. Massilianana

    Only three things ? Mmmmh tiny bucket ! ;o)
    Alors :
    NUMERO UN : go for an extended trip in the US with my kids and visit some states that make me dream like the Carolinas+Georgia (ah Scarlett !),Texas (Chisholm trail), Wyoming and Colorado (for the Rockies and just to say hello to R.Redford, comme par hasard ! ),California ( for San Francisco ). Ok and New York too. And Alaska , why not .
    NUMERO DEUX : to have a diswasher again.
    NUMERO TROIS : to fall in love again. (I put it in third position because I feel so…cautious now !).
    Voilà !

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  93. Brenda, Walker, LA, USA

    Your are so sweet with your give aways!
    My three bucket list wishes:
    1. To be a most wonderful and memorable mother, and grandmother! I want to dance and make happy memories with my two grandkids and more!
    2. To fund the Crisis Pregancy center in my area.
    3. To finish writing my books and publish them.

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  94. Katharine Brainard

    1. To have dinner with the Marquis de Sade who whispers in my ear, “It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
    2. To lunch with Marie Antoinette at Versailles; she sighs and says, “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
    3. To spend an evening in the salon with Gertrude Stein, who advises me, “Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”

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  95. Pam

    My bucket list:
    1. To write a book
    2. To create a beautiful flower garden–something blooming from the time snow melts until it falls again!
    3. To travel on the “Orient Express”–what’s left of it anyway!

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  96. Terri

    To hold a grandchild
    To sell collectibles in a consignment store
    To meet Johnny Depp!

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  97. Nancy from Mass

    My three things:
    1. To visit France
    2. To have more time and money to volunteer like I used to.
    3. To have time to knit everyday!

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  98. Beatnheart

    Hey Gail I’ll teach you the uke… I promise I’ll have you playing a song in one day…

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  99. dixiecrane@peoplepc.com

    The top three on my bucket list are:
    1. To have a long visit in the South of France
    2. To find the perfect place to live in retirement
    3. To spend the rest of my life doing only the things I love…in peace & harmony.

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  100. Kathie B

    Son Jean-Michel Cousteau is still alive and very active, and some of the Cousteau grandchildren have also taken up the cause of the ocean. Would meeting them be acceptable?

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  101. Jacquelyn

    This made my whole day…

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  102. Kristin McNamara Freeman

    My top three in the bucket list are:
    1) To take a road trip with my grandchildren to Utah this summer visiting historically significant places that they research and ask for on our travels each way to visit a dear, precious friend who lives at the base of the Wasatch range
    2) To teach a poetry class to my grand-children’s small rural school this school year and next
    3) To have a visit to relatives in Norway and then travel to France

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  103. Rainy

    My first is to go to Brocants in France. Than live to see my grandaughter get married, and that live to see my first Great grandbaby.
    Not very grand wishes but something I would truly love to live for.

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  104. Carolyn Sandulli

    1. get healthy enough to go on a trip
    2. write a story
    3. see France again

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  105. -chelsea

    hehe 🙂 love your list !!

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