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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 444684" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My cousin Judy, the one who helped write and edit the book about our community, was the oldest of four children and they all went to the same Catholic elementary school that their parents had gone to. The youngest sister was a tiny, shy, fragile looking little waif of a girl. By the time she was ready to start school, the three older ones had filled her so full or horror stories that she refused to go to school! I'm sure they embellished quite a bit too. When faced with the prospect of going to school, she screamed and cried and carried on until she threw up! They finally reached a compromise - she reluctantly agreed to go to school but only if her FATHER went with her to protect her! And he DID! He took a week off of work and for the first five days of the school year my 6'5" 300-pound Uncle Bill sat in the corner of the classroom on one of those tiny little chairs to "protect" his youngest daughter from the nuns! We <u>so</u> wished that someone had gotten a picture of that! But after that first week she realized that her siblings had been gassing her up. She decided that she probably could handle going to school on her own and Uncle Bill finally went back to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 444684, member: 1883"] My cousin Judy, the one who helped write and edit the book about our community, was the oldest of four children and they all went to the same Catholic elementary school that their parents had gone to. The youngest sister was a tiny, shy, fragile looking little waif of a girl. By the time she was ready to start school, the three older ones had filled her so full or horror stories that she refused to go to school! I'm sure they embellished quite a bit too. When faced with the prospect of going to school, she screamed and cried and carried on until she threw up! They finally reached a compromise - she reluctantly agreed to go to school but only if her FATHER went with her to protect her! And he DID! He took a week off of work and for the first five days of the school year my 6'5" 300-pound Uncle Bill sat in the corner of the classroom on one of those tiny little chairs to "protect" his youngest daughter from the nuns! We [U]so[/U] wished that someone had gotten a picture of that! But after that first week she realized that her siblings had been gassing her up. She decided that she probably could handle going to school on her own and Uncle Bill finally went back to work. [/QUOTE]
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