May 2016
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The granddaughter, Lola, age 6 and a bit, has been reading to me — a child's version of Romeo and Juliet. The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets distresses her. "Why do they have to fight. Why can't they just talk about it? Why don't they use their words?"
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1) "My husband's niece, his sister's daughter, has been staying with us. She's nineteen just about to turn twenty. For a couple of months now. She's working on her English –the family is Finnish. She's also enjoying the local social scene; she's out a lot a night, but that's not a problem. She's old enough…