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To: Fred Nerks

No, I can’t be sure. I’d have to see better photos and my eyes are not as sharp as they used to be. I’d lean towards the French club book holder but I could easily be wrong, it could be the other girl.


1,371 posted on 08/01/2012 10:50:31 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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...Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family headed to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill. But the classroom couldn’t contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again, first back to Kansas, then through a series of small Texas towns, then finally to Seattle, where they stayed long enough for my mother to finish high school. Gramps worked as a furniture salesman; they bought a house and found themselves bridge partners. They were pleased that my mother proved bright in school, although when she was offered early admission into the University of Chicago, my grandfather forbade her to go, deciding that she was still too young to be living on her own...’

(excerpt, "Dreams from my Father")

And that's all we've got aside from a few very suspicious looking photographs...

The French Club image - also undated.

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1,376 posted on 08/01/2012 11:24:56 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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