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Rachel Renee Russell presents The Dorc Diaries Podcast

brought to you by Simon and Schuster Audio. Episode 11. Sunday, September 29th. I'm starting to get really excited because the avant-garde art competition is only eight days away.

I decided to enter my watercolor painting that took me two whole summers at art camp to complete.

I spent more than 130 hours on it.

The only complication is that I gave it to my mom and dad last spring for their 16th wedding anniversary,

so it's technically not mine anymore.

It was either my painting or spending my entire life savings of $109.21 to buy them dinner at a fancy restaurant.

But I knew the dinner was going to be a total rip off because I watched the Food Network.

All of those five-star restaurants serve really gross stuff like frog legs and snails and then give you a tiny portion on a really big

plate with chocolate syrup drizzled over it and a garnish. And garnish is just a fancy name for a plain old

piece of parsley. So to save money Brianna and I decided to cook a romantic

candel at dinner for mom and dad as an anniversary. Brianna and I decided to cook a romantic candle

at dinner for mom and dad as an anniversary surprise.

We took a big bucket and a net to the pond at the park

and hunted down some fresh frog legs and snails.

Here frogy frogy, frogy, nice frogy.

It was my brilliant idea to make it an all you can eat buffet,

since we were basically getting the food for free.

Trying to prepare a gourmet dinner was definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be. The frogs kept

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