Word: tells
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...Chittum and Callie Conley will always be known as the switched-at-birth kids. But do they know it themselves? Depends on who's doing the raising. Becca, as her family calls her, has no inkling of the infamous switch. "She doesn't understand. It's too early to tell her," says Tommy Rogers, her "grandfather," that is, the father of Whitney Rogers, the woman who brought Becca home from the University of Virginia Medical Center in July 1995. Meanwhile, the woman who took Callie home from the same hospital prides herself on telling her "daughter" the truth. Calling...
...CAMP AND TELL...
...drive a BMW or own a cell phone or make $150,000 per annum, contrary to my claims on the application. And I decided I didn't really care if Free-PC knew which websites I frequented, so long as it kept its promise never to tell a marketer that I log on to cnn.com three times a week and check my stock portfolio every day. I even found a simple way to make the ads disappear: I taped paper over them...
...since I got my last diploma, that I found out Skip Barber offers a free course at high schools called "Crashing Is a Bummer." It certainly would cover the bummer of crashing your girlfriend's parents' car. Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't help me with that part, but he did tell me Jerry Seinfeld, who took the course a couple of times, totaled two Formula Four cars. Feeling sorry, Seinfeld slapped a Skip Barber magnet on his TV show's refrigerator. It is in that spirit of reconciliation that I now mention Hope and Ken, my girlfriend's parents, in this...
When the Schwabbies get back to home base, they have more to tell Hubbard about the experience. Virtually all of it is enthusiastic. Simon Dalgleish, a senior analyst in the business-strategy group, says he learned that "I can do things way outside the realm of what I thought I could. And it can be a blast." He even advises others never to "shy away from a challenge. By doing so you're potentially choosing not to have...