Posted: 10 January 2011 at 11:02am | IP Logged | 3
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Here's an amusing and perhaps touching tale.About ten years ago, my mother and father came to Connecticut for a visit, and were invited, along with me, to a very formal 50th birthday party being held for a former neighbor. Another neighbor offered my Dad the use of a VERY expensive tuxedo, which, when Mom and Dad left, I found he'd packed and taken with him. Seems he thought the tux was a GIFT, and was thrilled beyond measure to have it! Over the years, my neighbor and I have joked about different ways we might get the tux back, and, with Dad's death this was one of the first things I mentioned, jokingly. "Finally you'll get your tux back!" Steve (the neighbor) immediately said that the body should be cremated in the tux -- something Dad would have very much appreciated -- and so that's what will happen! Lord and Lady Rushton, circa 2000, in the front hall of my former residence…
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