Early in their marriage (probably the minus second year), my parents decorated the guest room in our house in Vermont in red, white, and blue, and stenciled the first two lines of the Star-Spangled Banner around the molding next to the ceiling. My mother's sister's husband (I was told) saw it in the morning and awoke my aunt with a guffaw.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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