On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:29:29 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:08:07 -0500, George Shirley
>> > wrote:
>>

>>> I probably should have added something to the effect that we were
>>> horrified by what he said. We're intensely private people and would
>>> never do anything like that ourselves. I guess we just wrote it off as
>>> youthful high jinks but I'm sure himself wouldn't do anything like that
>>> now. At about age 30 he turned into the quintessential yuppie.
>>
>> sounds like he went from bad to worse.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>All I can say is that we haven't seen he and his family in five years
>although we talk on the phone. He's willing to carry on a short
>conversation if we call him. I don't understand his attitude and neither
>does his mother. He and our daughter were great friends when young but
>she now has nothing to do with him at all. I think many families have
>social climbers in them that just want to forget the family they came
>from. Oh well, it will all even out in the end.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a yuppie child!

your pal,
blake