Now a college graduate , Emily is moving forward as a social being.

Retiring is about Rejuvenating

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Jeanette by the age of 10 had already become quite independent.

The Martins are good friends of the Wilsons. Each of these families are quite conservative from the Midwest and consist of the parents and a daughter only each of whom is approaching physical maturity. These two young ladies, Carol and Melissa, have been inseparable since their age of 7 when the Wilsons move next to the Martins.

The following is the beginning of possibly a seemingly endless number of time slices in the life of a particular parasol in Paris. Each slice has a singular point to be considered … or not!

It was an early spring. The winter had been extraordinarily warm with few snow showers, and no blizzards.