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John Kidder BS: You were born where? (127* d) RE: BS: You were born where? 01 Aug 01


Kendall:

I was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. My father was Kendall Kidder, born in Mogollon, New Mexico, in 1919, from a line started by James Ensign Kidder in 1633 or 1634 in what became Cambridge, Mass. My son is named Kendall Kidder - somewhere way back there our folks knew each other.

All these connections remind me of what Kurt Vonnegut called "granfallons" - meaningless associations used by strangers to make meaningless bonds. Vonnegut wrote about two people meeting each other on an airplane, discovering that they were both from Indiana "What?? Your're a Hoosier too?", and using this as a pretext to fall into conversation.

John Kidder




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