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(from GREAT MEMORIES: Book MAMA's April Pick For Moms)on 04/02/12Share your opinion
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A long time ago, I was graduated from college and did the classic “bum around Europe” trip with a good girlfriend of mine. This was in the very early 90’s. 1990’s. We flew from Los Angeles to Heathrow with backpacks and no itineraries whatsoever. It was a classic “the folly of youth” trip. But it was great. It is hard for me to imagine what that must have been like for my parents. No cell phones. No email—no internet cafes or what have you. No contact for 4 months. I may have sent a postcard or two. I had one specific command from the powers that be (in other words: those footing the bill) and that was to meet my grandmother at the Plaza Athenee in Paris on May 14th. I did have the semi-good sense to sort-of direct our trip to wind up in at least the right country by the end of April, and as we gallivanted around old...
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Yesterday was a rare rainy California day. We went to a matinee and saw Secretariat—fun for the whole family, right? It was fine, great, everyone loved it—laughed, cried, fell in love all over again—the whole bit. Only kidding…I was the only one with tears of joyous excitement streaming down my face at the end. As if I didn’t know how it ended. I mean, what the heck? That’s like being surprised by the ending of Titanic. Wow, that was super sad! Actually, I don’t know what was going on—probably some hormonal thing. But I do love a good race. And I love a good underdog story. That Rocky music still kills me. AND there was a little side story to the main story of the horse. It was the story of a mother and a daughter in the early 70’s. And I really think that’s what got me all wound up. Diane Lane was fabulous. Ladd...
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