Did she or didn’t she? When my father was growing up, his life was made more interesting by the pranks of his four younger sisters: Emmy, Elizabeth, Catherine and Louise. One evening after supper when he realized that one serving of dessert remained, he slipped it into a back corner of the icebox for a later treat. To ensure that it remained his and his alone, he wrote a note saying, “I spit in this. Thomas.” And propped it next to the dessert. Some time later he returned for his prize and found an addition to his note. It said simply, “So did I. Catherine.” Keren Wheeler |
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