Posted on 01/24/2005 9:22:11 AM PST by Radix
Edward H. Walsh was smoking cigarettes with friends one summer night in 1978 on a South Boston beach. He gestured to make a point. His gold class ring from Don Bosco Technical High flew off his finger. He'd had it just a few weeks.
So it was for 26 years. Tides rolled in and rolled out. Southie kids built sandcastles, grew up, and watched their own kids build sandcastles. Broken bottles turned to sea glass.
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Jeez.
What a sweet story about happy fudgecicle eaters.
Slow news day in Mass?
Love how they threw in the gay "marriage" angle - like it's as normal as mom & apple pie.
Smoking cigarettes, yeah right. Smoking pole is more like it.
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But he is not wearing it. It doesn't fit anymore.
Didn't fit then, doesn't fit now. Oh, well.
I just love the gay-marriage theme replete with a reference to "his husband". What a happy story! The ring was probably lossed somewhere other than the beach.
Hmmm....a host of gay "ring" jokes occur to me.
Yikes! lossed=lost. Long day of shoveling and football yesterday.
"The jury foreman, 48-year-old Kevin Kennedy, told her that he had an idea: The man he married in June shortly after Massachusetts legalized gay marriage graduated from Don Bosco in 1978, and he might have a yearbook. ... Out of curiosity, Maberry had Kennedy write down his husband's initials on a scrap of newspaper. He did: ''EHW," for Edward H. Walsh. ... When Maberry got home that day, she asked her daughter to check the initials on the ring. ... ''She looked at it and said, 'It's EHW,' " Maberry recalled. ''I almost had a heart attack."
Truly a queer tale!
The whole story was ruined, because of this Steve and Bruce angle.
I am sure they were Virginia Slims
So Kevin is the wife?
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