[Ads-l] Generation gap
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon May 2 06:04:06 UTC 2016
An eight-year-old, Welsh-Australian boy speaks of being in Wales "on
holiday."
His thirty-ish, Welsh mother speaks of being back home in Wales "on
vacation."
WTF?!
Youneverknow.
BTW, they're in the county of Gwyneth, or "Gwyn-eth," as they say it.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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