I apologize for not posting last week. I was really busy working and having Easter celebrations. But I remembered to do one now so here is one more installment of “The Feud Worth Forgetting”. I almost left this part out because I liked the note that part Eleven left off on but if I post this part it makes an even dozen. Plus I already had this written so I might as well use it.
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The family, packed into the mini van, was settling for a long drive.
“Mom?” said Harriet.
“Yes dear.” Her mother turned around in the front seat.
“If you wanted to tell us some stories I could write them down for you.” She replied clicking her pen and placing its tip to the notebook in her lap.”
Her mom smiled. “What kind of stories did you have in mind?”
“We’re talking about Colleges earlier. How about starting there? You were an engineering major right?”
“Yes and we had to work really hard just to get in.” Mom turned back around to stare out the windshield.
“So what did you have to do?”
“Sit ins mostly. We just sat around taking up space.” She stopped and looked like she was trying really hard to remember something. She glanced over and saw that wicked grin on her husbands face. The grin she fell in love with. It was a grin that reminded her that she really didn’t want her children knowing everything that she did in college. So forgetting that she was trying to remember something she simply said, “Nothing really interesting happened in College. Just studying and learning.”
“Really nothing at all happened?” asked Carla.
“It was the sixties honey,” said their father, “No one can remember what they were doing back then.”
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C. O. Bonham 