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I have limited time outside of my day job, and ever hour I spend on my blog is an hour I&#8217;m not spending on my fiction. But I&#8217;ve met some wonderful people in blog-land and had fun creating content for an audience, however small. It&#8217;ll be fun (or not) to see what my list looks like for 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Why not top 10? Because there were several with 9 likes, so I would have ended up with a top 12 or something. Life is messy like that. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to find my niche on this blog, so I thought it would be fun to look at my top 91 most-liked posts of 2020 to see if any themes emerge. 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