{"id":1279,"date":"2011-07-29T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2011-07-29T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:12:08","slug":"sugar-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/29\/sugar-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/38-sugar-neighbors.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-830\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/38-sugar-neighbors.jpg?resize=590%2C442\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I got to spend three days with some of my favorite people on earth.\u00a0 The five of us meet over thirty years ago in college and have by some lucky miracle, defied distance and place and time and just plain old life, to remain friends.\u00a0 It is a true gift to spend time with such people whom you have chosen and who have chosen you.\u00a0 We spent the time talking, talking, talking, and trying to fill in all the blanks since our full gathering in 2007.\u00a0 We have gotten together in twos and threes but it takes a fair bit of organizing to get all five together for a weekend.\u00a0 Through the talking one of the five shared about moving and living in a new neighborhood.\u00a0 Her family had been living next to a horrible, toxic neighbor who went out of his way to make them uncomfortable.\u00a0 That neighbor, in fact, was one of the big reasons for them moving.\u00a0 Now she and her family have a wonderful eclectic mix of neighbors who are the very model of neighborliness.\u00a0 There are the Howdy neighbors, and the Chatty Neighbors and then there are the Sugar Neighbors.\u00a0 Sugar neighbors are the ones of course that you feel comfortable asking for 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