Which Reminds Me

Yes, have I forgotten that was all staged? Som people were told to stand up and applaud at a certain point in the proceedings, and that would prompt everybody else to do the same. So it was not that I cared about you personally, it was only that I did what they asked me to do and that was the end of that story, nothing more to say about that. Nothing personal. Goodbye! 

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Yes, it was sort of puzzling to ponder, how were you expecting me to swim all the way to Cuba with this concrete block tied around my neck. Forget that. 

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Yes, I read somewhere online, in a report on Calkins DNA, something about the marker they found indicating that we might be descended from some ancient Irish people of the 4th century A.D. Weird how people would take that seriously. And the French are here with their Salic Laws to ensure that no girl could ever make us of that, that is to say, to nullify any effect whatsoever. 

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Yes, we noticed that Jemima Calkins (1708-1778) was a daughter of Samuel Hugh Calkins (1663-1755) who had 7-10 children depending on how you count that. People had large families back then. Jemima married Caleb Curtis and had about a dozen children of her own, including Jemima Curtis (1730-1784), who married David Elmer. However, it was Jemima's brother Stephen Calkins (1706-1781) who was our direct ancestor. Stephen and Jemima and their 5-6 other siblings were great-grandchildren of Hugh Calkins (1603-1690), who arrived in America in 1638, and grandchildren of John Calkins. Interestingly, Hugh's birthplace of Waverton in England is a 15-minute drive from Dodleston of "Vertical Plane" fame, not that it matters. We already ran through the various derivations of the name from horseshoe attachments and so forth, so hopefully you can just have those references on file in case.   

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Yes, it might be helpful to know whose idea was that, for me to go there to work at Angie's orphanage.because anyway,  I am barely aware that I at one time did have an acquaintance by that name, many years ago, but I have not seen them all these many years, except maybe once, so much water under the bridge, and we never worked for them. We are not connected in that way so there would be no reason for that. I am sure they have plenty of volunteer help there at the orphanage already, so we would not want to be meddling in their private project of which they are rightly called the founders. They were Bethany people and they lived in the Santa Cruz hemisphere, so who knows where those Bay people all went now that there is no longer a Bethany. I was really not that interested in continuing this conversation, but you would not stop talking. We were self-employed, so the Thomsons would have no place to be barking orders at me. I will make my own work decisions whenever I figure out what I am going to do eventually, but I really see no reason to have to discuss that with upi. They have their own thing going already and whatever I would want to do, most probably it would not be that.  

So I sort of get that you jsut could not resist the temptation to throw out a boatload of Mother Theresa jokes, but that was no concern of mine. After all, wasn't Teresa Glowacz your ex-girlfriend, before you married Faith? Bit whatever. here I digress. Someone must have accidentally put me on your online mailing list. 

And what was that you were saying about the Spanish-American War? But you don't spell your name cthe way great-grandmother does in her diaries, so who are you anyway? From what planet did you land?  

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Yes, it would be hard for me to imagine a more miserable and horrifying existence for my future self than to be stuck at Angie's Orphanage for an indefinite time and dependent on the largesse of strangers. What part of "No" do they not understand? 

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Yes, so typical of those guys to respin every little thing into a story all about them, when I am barely aware of the existence of Tim and the Gardners. But we already have lawn service that we pay for. We are not lacking pest control people who are very good at what they do and they have no problem finding our house and reappearing like clockwork. It would be premature to say when I would ever need to look to hire another gardener. Thanks anyway.