Camille suggested I start a blog so I wouldn't send 1,000 emails a day to tell her what we've been doing. I think of a blog in the present tense--like what's happening now--but I was reminded today that I had ignored the past and had not mentioned Camille and Lindsay. So here's a tribute to my loves who don't live near me anymore to take part in our daily activities.
We had Lindsay before Camille was born. We kept her while her parents traveled. We took her to see Christmas lights where she uttered her first word, "Ites" She was an only child for three years before Camille was born. She continued as part of our family and became Camille's pretend sister. They went to St. George's together and Memphis basketball games and went on vacations w/us. The only difference was in their eating habits. Lindsay only ate french fries and peanut butter while we fretted constantly trying to get Camille to eat anything--We spent lots of fun summers at Pickwick where the girls were forced to sleep in an inflatable boat because there were so many other people in our house that they got run out of their bedroom. As they got older, they still remained close although they went to separate schools and then Lindsay moved to Florida. They went to different colleges, live in separate cities now and fortunately I can keep up w/both of them through the internet. My friendship almost came to an end when, in college, Lindsay did something w/her away message that read "Dreaming of LHWingo" and I thought she was making fun of me and I wouldn't speak to her for weeks. I still, to the day, don't understand how it worked but apparently anyone who sent her a message got the same response but w/their screen name instead. The next post will be about the second time we almost disowned Lindsay. It was related to calling us to rub in an Auburn victory over our hapless Bulldogs.
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