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10/08/12 11:49

Sorry for the silence, but we've had house guests for the last few days and, in addition to having little time for blogging, I have had to sit with the keyboard touching my stomach because the air mattress takes up most of the office.

Yesterday we drove down to Pinecrest to visit a Polish couple living in a ranch house that looks like a low-ceilinged hunting lodge. It's a beautiful clutter of dark rafters, overstuffed couches and book-lined walls. We ate cold borscht out by the swimming pool, avocado and mango trees dotting the yard. The discussion, predictably, moved from families to politics.

On our departure Wlodek, the man of the house, kissed me on the cheek three times and said in Polish: "Stop being a liberal."

"How do you know?" I asked him. "I didn't say anything."

"I could tell by the looks you gave me."

I complimented him on the house, at which point he led me through the dining room, down a corridor and into a side room that had been turned into a chapel. A Miami Brideshead.

More goodbyes by the car, though minus Wlodek. We found him at the end of the driveway, holding two bougainvillea branches, which he handed through the window to Hania and Zosia.

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