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Everybody's at the table.
When they're not eating, they're talking.
When they're not talking, they're playing games.
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The White House had a big big dining table. Somebody counted the
chairs -- 22, I think. Very nice, and we spent a lot of time
there. Eating, talking, eating, playing games, eating, and maybe
eating some more.
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See what I mean? Is that the Memphis barbecue Ethel is eating, or
a ham sandwich? Hard to tell.
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Who are all those young people in those old pictures? Wait, I
wonder what Photoshop might do with those pictures of Freddie and Leta
....
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Well lookee there. Ain't computers grand?
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Who are those people?
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Hold that portrait real still, Dinah, and let's see if I can snap a
picture from a picture:
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Howzat? This is fun. Now I wonder if I can sneak a big
picture from the little picture of Guy's photo album:
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Not bad. A little blurry, but not too bad. But who are those
people? Is the young fellow in the suit Jerry Thompson? And
are the two girls Ann and Betty? And I assume the lone girl is
Ann. But who are the people with the boy in the suit?
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And who might this be? Ann, I suppose?
No, not Ann. Mother called and said I have this one wrong.
She says those are pictures of Betty and Wanda and herself -- Leta.
At least I think that who she said they are.
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Mother, you haven't changed a bit.
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Laura tells about her recent trip to Africa.
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Jonathan became a real card shark on this trip. He can beat
anybody at "Oh, Heck."
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Unless Leta peeks of course.
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Now this was an interesting game. Jenga, it was called. See
you stack up all these slick-smooth wooden blocks and you sliiiiiide
them out one at a time and stack them back up on top and keep going and
going and going and the stack keeps getting taller and taller ....
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And taller ....
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And taller .....
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And taller ....
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This was some sort of record, I think. Thirty stories. Want to see it
topple?
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Everybody loves to play the 1980's version of trivial pursuit.
Don't they? Well it's not MY fault some folks weren't born when
the questions were written.
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Jennifer likes to make pretty cheeses.
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She'll be a Trivial Pursuit whiz before you know it.
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Eric loses to Bill once again. I just love the 80's version of
Trivial Pursuit.
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Now down on this end of the table we're discussing more important
matters.
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Like solitaire.
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Freddie is loving this.
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And Nita is loving that.
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Nita pretends to be a brain-sucking zombie from "Dawn of the Dead."
Wait, I probably shouldn't have said that. Pretend you didn't see
it. Move along.
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Jennifer and a very sleepy Leta.
And now here are some of Cindy's pictures:
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Nita and Ann
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Ethel examines old photos while Dinah and Leta look on.
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Do they all go to the same hairdresser?
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I really wish I could see what they're pointing at. And why is Ann
trying to cover it up? I suspect this one will forever remain a
mystery.
And here are some of the pictures Tim took:
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More old photos of young people
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Nita explains second cousins twice removed to Tim
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MMMMMmmmmmm. Home-made ice cream!
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Home-made ice cream and Ann's strawberry birthday cake and the
Double MMMMmmmmm.... Twins
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