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INNtimate Family Reunions |
| Section: LIFE / LEISURE |
| Author: Ron Callari |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,534 Words, 10,529 Characters |
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Juggling schedules, budgets, and memories (old and new) can be overwhelming when the task is reuniting families in the nineties. The pace of our lives, coupled with the logistics of living so far apart from each other, has transformed reunion planning into a major undertaking. In marked contrast to the technological advances that have sped up communication on the information highway, moving family members from point A to point B takes ever more advance planning.vbcrlf The baby boomers' life-style (first they went away to college, and then they took up careers far from home) resulted in a decentralized American family. With sights set on a world of possibilities far beyond the picket fences of their old neighborhoods, they were cultural pioneers, not all that dissimilar from their ancestors who migrated to this country. Our contemporary American lives have been shaped by them.vbcrlf But with all our exploration and traveling, our thoughts inescap...
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..., followed by a full day of activities highlighted by the wedding celebration on Saturday, and dancing until the wee hours, the innkeeper invited all of us who were still awake on Sunday morning into his kitchen. For what purpose? To raid the refrigerator (of course!)... for any and all leftovers from the prior night's festive dinner banquet."Gives one a sense of coming home ... doesn't it! vbcrlf
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