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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. Your prayers were heard. I just got back from my tax preparer and I owe
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:00 PM
Apr 2013

no taxes this year for the first time in my life.

okasha

(11,573 posts)
9. One of my cousins was born as Pearl Harbor was being attacked by the Japanese.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:50 PM
Apr 2013

My mom called it two national disasters in one day.

Edited to add: got my return into the mail at 4:45 yesterday, then helped a friend do hers. I feel kind of like Atlas after the shrug.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
10. My mother was born on December 7th,
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:19 PM
Apr 2013

just way earlier than Pearl Harbor. It was an inside joke in the family and one time my next-oldest brother arranged for flowers to be delivered on her birthday, with the note "Happy Pearl Harbor Day."

The delivery person said to her when he handed them over, "I'm sorry for your loss." We thought it was funny at the time, but he had no idea what it meant. So, I feel a little sorry for him that he misinterpreted it, but maybe he would have laughed had he known the truth behind the note

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