tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50560388020149591142024-03-04T20:21:23.076-08:00Through a Small WindowPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761714890586496621noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056038802014959114.post-65167977793677226022016-08-05T16:23:00.002-07:002016-08-05T16:23:50.243-07:00Where it all began....<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Readers,</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Though this not be a continuation of the story, I wanted to share with you a very special place.</b></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I have taken a holiday and gone back to stay on the estate that was the inspiration and genesis of </span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">my tale. </span></i></b></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It has held me spellbound since my first visit so many years ago.</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>When I stumbled upon it, I found myself entranced. Walking the grounds was like coming home. There are no explanations for may things. All we can do is be open to where they lead us.</b></span></i><br />
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Dear readers, we last left off with Prudy Pettaway </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>But, just south of town on Yardley Road, Ruth and Sylvia James </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Sylvie dear hurry- I want to get a good seat, you remember </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>the last time Madame Rosa </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">came to the club, by the time we arrived </i></span><br />
<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">there was standing room only!” said Ruth</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>”We may need to borrow Esther’s car again, I’ll go ask..”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Sylvia!” Ruth exclaimed - “This really has gone on too long, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Walter was my Son, </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and you know how much I miss him too.. </i></span><br />
<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">but we can’t go on like this. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Driving around in a car from 1941 that breaks down every other day!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I know it was Walter’s pride and joy- and he asked that you take good care of it </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">before he left for the war- </i></span><br />
<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">but I don’t think he would have intended you to keep it...”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Until he comes home.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Sylvie- dearest, we may have to face the facts- even though he was declared missing in action</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>but never declared dead... he may not be coming home- it's been 23 years!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I know how long it’s been.” Sylvia replied defensively - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“But I know in my heart, </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">he will come home.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Besides dear, how does it look-to have our housekeeper driving </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>around in better circumstances than her employers? </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>And her car is ten years old!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Now don’t be giving me that Eleanor Roosevelt look.” she continued,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“You know I am just as democratic as the next person- </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>well at least the ones we like-</i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">but dear, there is a limit!"</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“First of all- Esther is hardly an employee, she is one of the family, and </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>I am ashamed </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of you for even suggesting otherwise. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Secondly, </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we are hardly pitiful, impoverished figures. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Besides Sunny loves that car and enjoys working on it, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i> it’s her only connection to a Father she never knew."</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">At that Ruth gasped-”It’s bad enough your only Daughter- and my Grand Daughter</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>goes around wearing trousers all the time- but to let her roll under that car, in the driveway,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>in plain sight of the whole neighborhood- well..its a disgrace Sylvia, an absolute disgrace!</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“Oh Gram, the times they are a changing- </span></i><br />
<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">isn’t that what that nice Jewish boy</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>who pretends to be a vagabond sings? </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Besides isn’t that what Walter went to war for-</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>to fight for- to keep us all free?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Ruth just shook her head and said~</i></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>”I can’t understand a word he sings, </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">he must have adenoids. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>So then let’s get on our way- I don’t want to miss Madame Rosa’s predictions.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I’ll go ask Esther for her keys.” said Sylvia</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Oh don’t bother - I have the spare set.” Ruth replied </i></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“You go freshen your face </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and I’ll start the car.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Gram- we can’t just drive off and not tell her- and you are not driving!- especially after </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>we had to replace all that shrubbery down at the Morrisville Bank last month!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Oh Sylvie- don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill-I didn’t run anybody over!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“That’s only because it was Sunday and everybody was in church!” replied Sylvia. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Give me those keys, and let me go tell Esther we are leaving, it’s just</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>lucky the car wasn’t more damaged by the time they pulled it out of what was left of that hedge!”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Coming into the kitchen Sylvia found the Esther was whispering into the phone.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Hello...hello, is that you Prudy? Am I on the “Prudy's probably right” show?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>and gave Esther a wave goodbye.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Hello, hello - are you there?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Prudy are you there? This darn party line, I wish we were closer to town </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>so we could get our own line.” Esther muttered to herself.</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“I thought Gladys would never get off the line...what a busybody, I don’t care if her</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Daughter Betty is going to Princeton in the fall or not. She may have graduated </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>top in her class from Pennsbury - but those cookies she made for the last Christmas bazaar </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>tasted like baked sawdust! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Prudy interrupted ”Caller do you have a question or a conundrum?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Oh Prudy you are there, thank heavens!” Esther exhaled.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Well Prudy, it isn’t exactly my problem, you see, I found out something that I didn’t want to find out- but now that I found out, I don’t know what to do about it!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Before Prudy could respond there was a crackling on the line.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>A voice came on “Madge is that you?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Esther shouted in exasperation “ Gladys get off the line ~ can’t you hear I am on a call!”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Gladys replied “Esther is that you?”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Prudy chimed in- “No names please...this is a confidential program.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I am trying to reach Madge to remind her to stop at Crumblers Bakery to </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>get the cake for the garden club event at the club!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Prudy interjected- I just saw Madge from my window take the left turn onto Main Street from </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Afton Avenue- so I bet she’s been to Crumblers.</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“Well I hope she checked it." said Esther "Last time we ordered a cake for Sunny’s birthday,</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>the night of the party we opened up the box and found out we had </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>There was a couple of loud clicks on the line.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“That’s nothing!” a completely different voice chimed in.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“My sister Louise and her Husband Alfie had a ten year wedding anniversary party,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>and when the help brought out the cake in front of all their friends it read- </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>With deepest sympathy!”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Esther exclaimed “Sandra Harper is that you?”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I am on a very important private call here- please get off the line!”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“Oh, sorry Esther, I just couldn’t help mentioning it when I heard Crumblers being discussed. </span></i></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Do you know the icing colors weren’t even right! It was supposed to have</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Who orders a sympathy cake anyway? That seems to be in really bad taste if you ask me.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Sandra continued..”Besides Louise thought I ordered it that way on purpose-knowing</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>how I feel about their marriage, you know how I was against it from the start.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>What’s with a grown man running around in a jump suit playing Elvis songs on an accordion?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>He has a few screws loose if you ask me...but that’s between you and me Esther.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Sandra- for Heavens sake-we are on “Prudy’s Probably Right” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>so it’s between you and all of Yardley now. Please will you get off the line </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>so I can discuss my private conundrum with Prudy?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Oh my goodness, Louise isn’t speaking to me already.”Sandra moaned</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Why don’t you send her some flowers?” Gladys piped in.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Gladys are you still there too! Esther shouted.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I just wanted to make sure my phone was still working, I’ve been having problems</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>with it lately.”Gladys said sheepishly</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Besides I have to get going- or I won’t get a good seat at the club!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I have to run too!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Well!” Prudy said ”Caller, it seems we can talk now, but you will need to make it brief,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I need to be at the Club very soon too, Madame Rosa’s events are always chockablock.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Esther said “Well I will try and be quick, but it’s so upsetting.”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Distressing news had come to Esther’s attention that very morning.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>She was preparing breakfast for Fredrick, always the earliest riser in the James family.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Freddy, what’s wrong, you haven’t touched your breakfast?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Oh Esther, what am I going to do?” he moaned.</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“I don’t know if I can...once it get’s out everything will be ruined!”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Freddy, you can tell me...I’ve always kept your secrets.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Remember the time </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">you snuck those goats into the ladies millinery department at Lit Brother’s department store,</i><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the very opening day!” Esther tittered </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I never saw ladies in high heels run so fast!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Or, she continued, what about the time I found out it was you and Jack that put all that lawn furniture out in the middle of the road on Mischief Night, did I let slip a word?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Yes, and if Jack hadn’t have gone back to rearrange it, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“No, Esther, you have always been there for me, I could always count on you.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Esther sighed “With your Father gone all these years, and your poor Mother </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>well, let’s just say a bit touched.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“ Well, last night Daphne and I stopped at the club after we saw a movie </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Daphne has been trying to expose me to more culture, like foreign films. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>But I must admit, trying to read those subtitles while following the story give me a headache!</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">But she has been a good sport, the week before I took her to see</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Fredrick and Daphne had been seeing each other now since January after they met at </i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Daphne had at first resisted dating him, knowing he had been involved with Delores DeCarlo.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Remember Delores who had made such a spectacle of herself at the party?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>But, Fredrick convinced her that he had been trying to break it off with Delores </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“So, we were having a real nice time.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Daphne reached across the table, and taking Fredrick’s hand said-</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Thank you for making me so comfortable. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>When we are together, I feel I can share anything with you. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I haven’t always been able to be so forthcoming. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I often feel separated from most people, as if I belong in a different time and place.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I suppose that’s why I research and write about the past, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I am much more comfortable there, than the here and now.”</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">Fredrick smiled and said~”But Daphne, I am so glad you are right here,</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>and sharing my now. I don’t know what made you decide to come to Yardley,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I just know that when I met you I could feel my world change.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“I don’t really understand it myself.”she replied, “I was at the library </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>in Philadelphia doing my research, and there sitting on the table next to me was a</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>The pages of the paper fluttered and when I looked down, </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I glanced down at it closer..and there circled was the advertisement~</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Country house of once prominent Quaker family, vacant and in need of restoration~</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>And of course after Ophelia and I met dear Jack, Alice Fuller took me up the road to see it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>"If only they could find Sophia Skattergood, the sale could go through!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Daphne, I know it hasn’t been that long” Fredrick said, “but there is something I need to...”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Just then, into the bar came Delores DecCarlo. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Seeing Fredrick and Daphne, she immediately </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">walked over to where they sat.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "palatino"; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Well, isn’t this cozy.” she said sarcastically, “I was wonder’n why you haven’t been around Freddy, </i></span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">now I know, Mary Poppins here has you under her </span>spell<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">!”</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“Daphne no, please stay, Delores and I have nothing to...”Fredrick pleaded</i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">“Fredrick, I am sorry, I can’t witness this grotesque...”Daphne faltered,</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>whatever the hell it is!" Delores shouted.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Turning to Fredrick she said “Well Freddy, she doesn’t look so hot, is she always so pale?</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "palatino";"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">She </span>broadcasts right <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">from her cozy cape cod home, high up the hill on College Avenue,</span></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>where she has a panoramic view over all of Yardley Borough.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Her program consists of advise on all sorts of subjects for her faithful listeners.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Most everyone in town has come to begrudgingly rely on her knowing </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>“I can see Marge has a brand spanking new Pontiac!..</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>well, I am not sure I would have picked that particular color automobile if my latest choice</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>in Miss Clairol was that specific shade of ash blond though. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>“Sarah Burns has changed her front drapes again! </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>I wonder what Wilbur will have to say about that when he returns from his business trip to Chicago? </b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>It seems every time that poor man leaves </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the house there is some redecorating going on. </i></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>“Also, I can see Skeeter Cadwalader is planning to do some home repairs~</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>he must have completely bought out Cunnigham’s Hardware.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>You would think with the little he has to do in this fine law abiding community he could put all his </b></i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>efforts in to capturing this heinous criminal. "</b></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>"Why just yesterday Sally, Mrs. Honeywell’s</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>girl, turned her back for just a minute to water those prize winning African Violets </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Becky keeps by the picture window~ </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b> low and behold this creature steps in and walks off with Sam Honeywell’s dinner!~ pot and everything~ even Becky’s hand crocheted pot holders that she bought at the last Christmas Bazaar! </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>She was so upset she went right to church and hasn’t come back since!"</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>“Oh, thank you Polly, I almost forgot! ~ Just two doors down on College Avenue</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>from me a new family from New York City is moving in the old Stevens place. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>"Three days ago when I peeked through the back parlor window as I was just passing by, </b></i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>A lovely couple with two children ~ as far as I could count. I know the sale went through, </b></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>because when I happened to stop by Alice’s office selling raffle tickets for this fall’s Harvest Day, </b></i></span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>"I still can’t believe what they are paying for that old place! These New Yorker’s are going to raise </b></i></div>
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<b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>not that I wanted Charlie Stevens to have that fatal gallbladder attack, and poor Lilly having to move to Pompano Beach Florida to live with her daughter, </i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">so Sad.”</i></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>I am sure I mentioned his company before- </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>"Well, where has the time gone?</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>I have just enough time for one phone call before I head over to the country club.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>"She is the real deal folks, remember as I reported last year, she predicted </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>We all pooh-poohed knowing elections were not for another year.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>How could she have know Bobby Hawkins was going to get run over by that </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Just tragic! "</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>"Imagine sitting on your own patio reading the morning paper and Bam!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>His wife Ellie said she doesn’t even think he made it to the horoscope section,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>which could have saved his life. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Laying right next to his poor pulverized body was the last section of the Trentonian. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>His horoscope, Leo, said that very day~</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><b>Well as you can imagine there was dairy products all over the place!"</b></i></span></div>
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Philiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761714890586496621noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056038802014959114.post-89135399406785912792014-06-08T05:52:00.000-07:002015-11-23T03:51:38.712-08:00Begone ~ before someone drops a house on you!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will be torn down ~ and </span></i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">six new, beautiful ~ high profit raised ranches </span></i></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with river views will be standing there!”</span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey you little bastards ~ get away from there ~ get your grubby paws off my Caddy!”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Here’s my card- Dottie does it best!”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Those Catholics, oh brother, </span></i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need to start offering additions!”</span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why does that lady smell like a rotten egg?” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I am heading over to that </span></i></span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so called country club to hob~nob with these damn hicks,</span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he and I are... betrothed.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Greeting them in the foyer he explainded- "Nothing in this house has changed since the day the bombs </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fell on Pearl Harbor. Mother and Gram have kept everything as it was when Father left. They still believe </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he may walk in the door some day!"</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "How wonderful that you could join us my dear" </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "We have heard so much about you and your endeavors </i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Yes, I am still waiting while they try and locate Sophia, </i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" From what Alice Fulller said, she is the only heir, </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "No wonder!" jumped in Gram</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Poor Sophia had nothing but misery there, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>we grew up together, and I know!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "If I were you I'd find someplace else- nothing but misery and sadness I tell you!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "Gram!" Sylvia said "Miss Dalrymple is our guest </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "Oh please don't worry, I am very interested in what ever history </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>you might provide." </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Daphne replied. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> was helping his girlfriend Dolores</i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> off with her coat. </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Glancing over at Daphne she said </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Who's that Freddy -</i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what a get up- is she Amish or something?" </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Get me a drinkie poo, will ya?"</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Mother," Jack said to Sylvia back out in the hall,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"But you must go see Lydia Snodgrass, down at the library on Lake Afton."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and have forgotten so much."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Ignore what I said earlier dear, buy that house, and make it a happy one!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"I hurried back, afraid I wouldn't see you again, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thinking some day I would get around to restoring it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I decided not to- these are not typically colors I would choose- and yet like </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Life does not always progress in a straight line~ So nor does our story.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It has it's detours ~ flashbacks and projections.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>We left off as Elvira and Sophia Skattergood rushed from Delancey Street </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to catch the train from </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Philadelphia north to Bucks County. </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">It is there that Elvira feels her niece is sure to find a fitting Suitor.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Poor Sophia knows only of her own broken heart.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Many, many years have passed~ but the events that have transpired still</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>albeit now just an hour or so drive.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Pardon me, do you know where I might find West Acres Farm?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>who had a very colorful sense of fashion.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And the large barn you passed down the lane~ </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>we have known each other since grade school roll call ~</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And I am not long winded ~I am simply thorough."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"How do you do, I am Daphne Dalyrmple and this is Ophelia." she said</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>so you can see why I am a bit confused."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"She must be showing you the Skattergood house," John said </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"It has been empty for years now ~ since Miss Elvira passed on back in 60.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It was too much for us to take on ~ this place is enough of a wreck."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>John is in banking, and I am a decorator."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Maybe you will need help with the old manse?" Jack offered.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"We are having a slight disagreement </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">with the direction of our renovation.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"As you can see from the samples I have brought ~ I am going for an updated look ~</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>where as John wants your typical staid Bucks County gentry look." said Jack.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"I just think that perhaps things might get a little... well maybe a little loud?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>exclaimed John, with a pleading look towards Daphne.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"You Brits have such great taste,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>" I keep telling Jack" said John, "There is nothing wrong with these fixtures..."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that have finally </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">been built in this one~horse town."</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>roommates ~ my foot!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Now Dottie," John said, trying to calm her down.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>who will be a life long friend.</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>"Young man ~ call for our carriage immediately!" </i></span></div>
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<i>McLoughlin Bros. folding house- Patented July 1894</i>Philiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761714890586496621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056038802014959114.post-9864952717314185112011-11-04T05:51:00.000-07:002015-11-22T12:43:18.514-08:00Americans in Paris ~ Many years ago.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What to wear?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Susan complains to Elvira ~ "Our clothes are lacking in style,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>we look like Philadelphia Quakers!~ me perhaps less than you</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>my dear ~ but still not Présentable."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Elvira retorted ~ "We are Philadelphia Quakers ~ and I for</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>one am proud of it. Best not to forget it dearest!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ingovernable!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"I am not about to walk the avenues of Paris looking like a provincial country bumpkin!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Susan cried. "Mme. Robilliard has even offered me one of her frocks, until I have a chance </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to do some shopping. And besides, she said with my excellent pronunciation of the language </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">no one would suspect I wasn't a native Parisian!"</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Elvira dear ~ you must let me do all the speaking- you haven't kept up!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>she continued...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"All my set back home only speak French to each other~ you have been spending too</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>much time up on the farm!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Elvira's Advice</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Since Losing both their parents years before, Elvira and Albert </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>have done their best to bring up their younger Sister, despite her willful nature.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Susan, we must maintain decorum, and not be ashamed of our very respectable</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>pedigree."stressed Elvira</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Mme. Robillard, lost her husband last year, and finds herself in financial straits.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>She ponders how the Skattergood fortune could be used to her advantage.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>An idea is formed! She will preform an introduction to the sisters that will be sure to</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>keep them ~ and their fortune here with her in Paris. At least until she can think</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of a more permanent solution. </i></span></div>
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