At 04:54 PM 3/16/03 -0800, Fang wrote:

>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.

One has to be inclined to being mean-spirited first of all, for that to
make a difference (e.g., at a wedding shower hosted by mother and sister of
the bride).  I've done my damnedest to breed that out of my line, having
been subjected to too g--d--- much of it when I was a child, and determined
I wasn't going to pass along the infection.  I have no patience with
mean-spiritedness.

Besides, there are too many fun things to do.  The activities Elizabeth and
I have planned are such things as making net-and-ribbon corsages and having
each one hold a very small kitchen gadget of this or that arcane usage.
Marti will have to identify and explain the use of each, with no coaching.
There are some that I didn't know what they were (Elizabeth bought 'em).
And then there are the sock puppets.

Veloci--too much fun to be had to waste it on meanness--rapto


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