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from: Michael Nellis
date: 2003-03-16 16:54:32
subject: RE: de-lurking for a moment

Hi, Auntie Em.

--- Emily Weems  wrote:

> > One of
> > the books on the subject which I checked out from the Middleburg
> > library says that it is an absolute no-no for either the mother 
> > of the bride or the sister thereof
> > to host the shower.  Pfui, says we.
> 
> That's what they say.  [...]  Showers are fun, no matter who does 
> them. Besides, we're in the 21st century!

Yeah, but it's a very fine line between persiflage and mean-spirited,
and family members are much more likely to blur it.  Too much
emotional baggage between siblings and parents, all around.

=====
Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be 
banned because I might read it and it might be very 
damaging to me"? --Joseph Henry Jackson

>From the Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver
and The Encyclopedia Michael Nellis
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/index.html

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