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Despite some dreary weather, we had a lovely day up in Connecticut with my cousins, most of whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years. That span (coinciding with both daughters’ weddings in the summer of 1996) has yielded 5 children, plus a bunch of retrievers: Amy was pretty happy to discover that a) I have … <\/p>\n
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