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| | The Santa Barbara Independent :: living :: Sunday Afternoon Peeps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) |
 | | So by the time Sunday afternoon rolled around, I was ready for a dose of mellow mingling, which I found at the Arts Fund’s “Wish You Were Here: Along the Orient Express” fundraiser. |
 | | The annual event features a silent auction of works from 60 local artists; in years past, said works were always postcard-sized, hence the “Wish You Were Here” name, but this year, the powers that be decided to kick those pieces up a notch, to 8-by-10 inch size, which made them all the more tempting. |
 | | It was a perfect Santa Barbara Sunday, and standing there (standing — that’s progress!), I realized I wasn’t wishing to be anywhere but here. |
| www.independent.com /living/2006/10/sunday_afternoon_peeps.html (412 words) |
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