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suspectclass ([personal profile] suspectclass) wrote2004-12-25 12:33 am

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Tomorrow morning Diana and I are going to 8 o'clock mass. We were going to go to the 8.30 mass at a closer church, but dad alerted me at the last minute that the later mass likely involved a guitar. No hippy mass on Christmas!

Our annual White Christmas viewing was heralded in with the usual fanfare of whining and attempts at substitutions by dad and Helen, and hard-line traditionalism by Diana and I. And of course we all got up and wandered around at some point, to make popcorn, or hot chocolate or get a beer. Dad spent the last hour of the movie looking up the various leads and telling us about their years and causes of death. For instance, though she had a nervous breakdown in 68 and was in the hotel outside of which Bobby Kennedy was shot, Rosemary Clooney lived until 2002, when she died of lung cancer. Amazing! Also, she had five children between the years of 1955 and 1960.

Um. Someone take me away from the internet.