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Just Try to Relax

Lowen Baumgarten

Jul 21, 2012 — 1 min read

Laina and I are in Sonoma for the weekend, soaking up the sun, drinking lots of wine, and eating even more food.

We just finished breakfast and I'm about to go to my first spa experience. Laina booked us for a 90-minute couples massage and I'm a little sketched out about the whole thing.

"So, we just lie down on the thing and then they go to town on us? Do they chat with you while they're massaging you, like a haircut? It's a couples massage, so are we supposed to talk to each other?"

"No! Oh god, you're not going to talk are you? Don't you ruin my massage by talking all through it!"

"I won't, I won't. There are *some* times when I can stop talking."

"Ok, good you're just supposed to relax."

I think I can do that.

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