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<\/a><\/p>\nThen we all bonded after the babies went to bed.<\/p>\n
It’s really nice to have people visit, and to have the space to host them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dilek visited us today. Dilek is Aydin’s wife, and now the 6th member of the family to visit San Francisco. I picked her up from her friend’s gorgeous house in Belvedere. From there we went to the mall and shopped for the babies (both here and back in Turkey). 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