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Geezers and fruitcake
On 11/14/2016 11:00 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 7:45:29 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 11/13/2016 11:54 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> On 2016-11-13 10:11 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>> On 11/12/2016 6:34 PM, wrote:
>>>>>> On Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 3:50:51 PM UTC-6,
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12 Nov 2016 21:04:22 GMT, notbob > wrote:
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>>>>>>>> I've come to the conclusion that once you qualify for Social Security
>>>>>>>> (age 62) yer "fruitcake mode" suddenly switches on and you can
>>>>>>>> instantly tolerate fruitcake.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yer rong nb - I luved it all mi life !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Me, too!
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I was 10 or 12 when my cousin got married and everyone got
>>>>> a little box of cake to take home. I just loved it and that was
>>>>> my first memory of fruitcake.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> In my 20's I went to a lot of weddings and they usually has a small
>>>> piece of wedding cake, which around here used to mean a dark fruit cake.
>>>> I usually ate mine right away. Most often I would end up with a couple
>>>> extra pieces that others at the table could not get rid of fast enough.
>>>>
>>> I didn't even eat my own slice of wedding cake. I did the obligatory
>>> thing, cut the cake then put that first slice in the freezer for a year.
>>> At which point I threw it out. In the trash.
>>>
>>> Jill
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>> We didn't have a wedding cake. Instead, we had a big bowl of fresh
>> strawberries. We're still going strong 27 years later, so the
>> symbolism/superstition of the wedding cake appears to be not
>> 100% necessary.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
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> We didn't have any cake or strawberries and had a 35 dollar wedding. We had to drive back from Nevada to San Mateo CA in a Mazda with a clogged fuel filter. The longer we drove, the slower the car got. That was 35 years ago. It looks like it's going to be a "till death do us part" deal.
>
Or a new fuel filter and giddy speed to come...
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