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Clue:
A laugh-out-loud funny book. The true story of a family, written by 2 members of that family. The father of this family was a famous guy – famous for doing … er … something I won’t tell … and this is kind of a tribute to this wacko father and a wacko childhood.
Waitasec. Is this Cheaper by the Dozen? When I was in school up in Maine, on and off, they read it aloud to us in snippets for weeks. I don’t remember the names of the authors, though. Unless I’m totally thinking of something else.
Yes. Cheaper by the Dozen. By Ernestine and Frank Galbraith.
I tried teaching myself to touch-type with a variation on their method. Ultimately the best I could do was to tape over all the keys, and then when my boss went to use my typewriter – remember them? – he was mightily annoyed.
Oh, my gosh.
That one was bothering me ALL NIGHT.
I KNEW I had read that last line in a book, but couldn’t guess where. Yes, Cheaper by the Dozen. Remember reading it as a young teenager.
I SO wanted to be a part of that family.
ricki – I especially loved the fact that it was in the 1920s – and all the older girls were getting into the flapper thing, and climbing out their bedroom windows to go meet their boyfriends … etc.
It seemed so cool!