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To: Calpernia; All

HUMOR RELIEF:

My best man at my wedding married his college sweet-heart. She was the daughter of a long time MD father and RN mother. Both parents were in the US NAVY in WWII. For a long period, the parents were in distant duty stations from one another. I think the mother was in San Diego and the father was in Hawaii or some such.

The father had died before the wedding of my best man to his daughter. A decade or so after their wedding, the mother died. They were going through the effects from the wife's parents' lives and came across several shoe boxes of love letters from the Navy years.

The letters were sweet and very romantic--a fascinating read. But all the letters had a bit of mystery in the closing from both the father to the mother and vice versa. Along with the usual "Love" and "XXX" was the persistent notation: "I have big feet for you."

This was a great and increasing puzzle to both M and Deb with each shoebox of letters they read through.

Finally, as fate would have it, I think it was in the bottom of the last box, was a post card of the big bronze horse in Balboa Park in San Diego. And the notation on the card was "BIG FEET!"

Of course, the feet on the huge horse were not the only things that were big.


1,650 posted on 07/13/2004 8:03:16 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: Quix

So this is why HipShot is fascinated with horses!

/teasing


1,657 posted on 07/13/2004 8:19:43 PM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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