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Tonight is Bonfire Night, also known as Guy Fawkes' Night, commemorating the hideous torture and death of the Catholic Guy Fawkes who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder, hence it's being known as the Gunpowder Plot.

Across Britain, families are having bonfires, burning effigies of Mr Fawkes, known as 'guys' and eating toffee apples and parkin. I used to love this when I was younger, but sadly as a skint city dweller I no longer have the space or the funds for such an event.

Fortunately, everyone lets off fireworks, too, which as I'm living in the top room of a house over a valley, I can see the best display in the city - and all for free, in the warm!
--Catherine
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2005.11.05

--Beau's a sidebar regular, I attended the Cleveland Temple Corps (the Salvation Army church in Cleveland Heights) with him and his younger brother Lin. Just a little teasing of Lin's "new" look (though I think he's been doing that for a while now.

(I tweaked the photos to make them look as similar as I could, but I didn't do that great of a job of it...)

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