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Jack Newman <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 May 1997 06:10:21 -0500
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I will be in Nova Scotia for the next few days, so am going nomail.
Actually, I am lazy, I will just ask my children to delete Lactnet when
it comes through.

Just a quote from Carol Shields (Born US, Lives in Canada) in her play
Thirteen Hands.  Four teenagers are talking about their fanatical bridge
playing mothers.  This one is responding to  another's having had bridge
rules pumped into her in infancy:

"I got it pumped into me too, but I mean like literally.  My
Mother?--she used to take me with her when she played.  It was hard to
get baby-sitters in the daytime then and I was just a baby.  She just
stuck me in a corner in my little basket thingamajig, and if I got
hungry and made a fuss, she'd whip out a boob right there at the table.
Never missed a hand.  A month old, two months old, and there I was,
sucking up all those hearts and diamond tricks along with my mother's
milk, God, I wonder what it tastes like".

The other answers:

"Vanilla ice cream--that's what I've heard, only melted".

Jack Newman (hoping to eat lots of scallops and lobster)

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