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I slipped the porter some money and said to him, “weigh them light.”
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pounds for a bag, and the porter would record 26 pounds. We stayed
within the weight limitation!

We left New York in a TWA Constellation plane. Such planes
were immediately recognizable because the fuselage looked like a
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the plane’s heating system for the cabin was defective. Because it was
so cold, Jean and I each sat on a seat next to the plane’s frigid wall with
a child on our left. We each wrapped a child in blankets that circled
around the two of us.
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not corrected. (Had we not been so young and eager to get along with
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4 p.m. on a day in early February. I knew the Manager of Transporta-
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housing supervisor and he met us at our new house. After giving us keys
and showing Jean around the house he said, “Mrs. King has invited your
family to come to breakfast tomorrow at her house.” Pauline King was
the wife of the District Manager, Bob King, and she was a lovely lady.
I told the housing supervisor, “Please tell Mrs. King that we have had
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Please express our appreciation for her invitation, but we will probably
sleep in late tomorrow morning.” He said, “Mrs. King anticipated that
possibility and instructed me to advise you that breakfast will be served
to your family whenever they arrive at her house in the morning.”
In the morning we showered and dressed and walked to the

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