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THIS IS ROBERT TALKING . . . Or, the Dark Side of Etiquetteer :-)

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Tuesday, April 11

April 11, 2017

1) First back porch cocktail of the year. What an unseasonably warm and beautiful day!

2) With the 105th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic this weekend, I almost feel obligated to watch the films: Titanic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, a hot young Robert Wagner, and a fascinating brunette, Audrey Dalton; my beloved A Night to Remember, and the 1943 Nazi propaganda film Titanic, which I'm watching tonight thanks to the Yewtybbe.

3) Unusually, on the way home from the T station I ran into one of the two fathers in my building, with the two oldest girls from both families coming home from school; they're roughly three years old. By the end of the year there will be five children under the age of five living here. The third floor has a blessed event scheduled for the end of summer, and the second floor had a blessed event just over a week ago - of which I'd not even an inkling!

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