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Today my family and I had the delightful privilege of having Joel Watts (possibly known to readers as Polycarp of the blog The Church of Jesus Christ<\/a>) and his family spend time with us, first at the public library and then at home. <\/p>\n

As if this weren\u2019t enough of a treat, we had a visit from another family after they left. They just showed up in our back yard. We caught it on video:
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