Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Please Save This Page and Refer Fio to It When She Gets Low----

Going through all the papers she's saved, Fiorella is learning a lot about her former self. Like that she studied not only Latin (5 years) and Russian (two years), but also German (one semester) French (six weeks and she passed the exam), Telugu, Hindi, a bit of Mandarin, and Spanish--not one of which she could handle today.

Her list also said was published in poetry, short story, and hard cover, taught piano and voice on the side, and had won several teaching awards, all of which, with current events being so overwhelming, she had forgotten.vet.

If you want to have an example of how your girl recorded EVERYTHING back then (and now), here it is, written on the back of a student recital handout. "During his brief one and a half year with Husband and me, Albert  captured every corner of our hearts as we watched him grow from a tiny, squeaking black ball of fluff to a full-grown adult guinea pig, majestic and proud. He had learned to beg for food and not wet on people's lap, and that a resounding NO meant to stop what he was doing. Then one day, he fell ill and nothing we could do helped him so we lifted him into a big woven basket, lined it with soft towels, and took him off to the vet, who seemed nonplussed by such a tiny patient. That's when we learned that guinea pigs are usually treated as heard animals and no one knew anything about them as individuals--but because Albert's welfare was obviously so important to us, the vet pumped our darling full of antibiotics and appetite stimulants. Sad to say, Albert died the next day, but we felt he had made a lasting impression on on the world because there, on his bill, for "breed of animal," the vet had written "ALBERT." Yes, our Albert was one of a kind.

Here's a cute story to wipe away your tears--Years ago, when our oldest was just four years old, he revealed our family's shopping habits to the whole church when he solemnly petitioned God to "Give us this day our day-old bread."😁


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