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...rest just smells bad. Most of us look at the platter from Aunt Katie with a wave of affection. Can you really get a warm glow from a place setting sent by a contributor you barely know who's angling for your attention? I'd stack my dishes on the floor before I'd accept a china cabinet from Walter Kaye, the insurance mogul who also delivered intern Monica Lewinsky to the West Wing...
They expected to ride out the storm. A valid U.S. adoption must be recognized in Britain. But the media scrutiny exposed their vulnerabilities. Wecker announced she wanted the babies back again, declaring she had used an aunt's address to fake the 30-day residency required to seek an Arkansas adoption. She said the Kilshaws knew this at the time, though Alan denies it. The Arkansas decree cannot become final before June, and authorities there are likely to challenge it because of Wecker's admission. What's more, the Kilshaws did not apply for the entry permits to Britain required...
...year-old brother, Hugh, and I had been, in effect, exiled for the summer, in the care of our teenage Aunt Sally, to a small vacation cottage (no electricity, no running water) on a backcountry farm absentee-owned by a friend of my father's. You went a mile down a dirt road crusted with crushed oyster shells until you came to the cottage. The yard was overgrown with tall grass, and if you weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake...
...Colored" entrance and there, in a barroom twilight amid the stale beer and dead cigarette smells, Charles would with utmost deference approach the owner Chink and place our morning's bets on the numbers. We never bet more than 10 cents, all in pennies, money collected from Aunt Sally and Charles' mother, Leola, and from our own stash. We never won, never hit the number, though we tried elaborate systems (jumbled birthdays and the like). But the trip to Chink's remained all summer a hopeful ritual, an adventure...
Someday, not so far in the future, planning for air travel may be very simple: You want to go see your aunt in Kansas City on June 4? Punch it in and your computer will spit out an itinerary and charge your credit card. No messy choices, no annoying price comparisons - because there will be only one mega-airline that flies to Kansas City...