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Is anyone attending the Long Beach Quilt Festival this month? I'm going and would love to meet up with you while I'm shopping. This is purely for personal fun - no work! :) I'm flying down a few days early to spend a long weekend with a girlfriend that lives in L.A. We're driving up through Santa Barbara, seeing her parents in Santa Inez (?) and going to Hearst Castle and maybe a winery. She's...