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[groovesinorbit]

How's it goin', Chuck?

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, uh, yeah. Ha!

Reminds me of the story my folks used to tell about how they were afraid I'd never stand up to my brother, who, in the early days of my life, could do no wrong in my eyes. (My first word was purportedly "Rob-Dob.") I know he opened my Christmas presents, for instance, until I was 6 years old.

The story, which I gather takes place when I was maybe 3 or 4, is that they were just wondering whether they were going to have to do something to get me to stand up for myself, when Robbie took something of mine (perhaps something I was playing with at the time? who knows), and I said to him (in the quaintly ungrammatical way they liked about the story, but I don't, since it was me talking): "I loves ya, Rob, but you can't have that."

Eventually I do stick up for myself. And it doesn't take as long as it used to. Though, granted, it's still a little slow in extreme circumstances.

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[groovesinorbit]

HH. Couldn't help myself there. Just joshing ya.

Wasn't somebody in your family's first word 'porkchop'? That sticks in my head. I have no idea what mine was. Not interesting enough to be passed down, anyway.

"I loves ya, Rob, but you can't have that."

I love it.

Possibly not surprisingly, learning to share was a big issue with me as a small child. I have a very vague memory of not sharing with a neighbor kid and getting told off pretty severely.

I think I've gotten better at that.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

With your siblings so much older than you, it's almost like you were an only child, insofar as sharing toys, etc. And, yeah, I too think you've gotten better at it!

The pork chop reference is to another old family story. The one in which I eat my first solid food, at a pivotal moment in the family's history. Maybe I'll put it down in the journal some time. I've just told it recently a bunch; must be on my mind, with academia and A.B.D.ness and everything. Think I may have told it to coworker B. (not B.) more than once, in fact, as when I told it to her and her now-hubby not long ago, it seemed as if she'd perhaps already heard it. Don't you hate when that happens? H. & I told the same stories many times, though, so I've gotten a little more used to the feeling.

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[groovesinorbit]

Yeah, we're all going to be like R's mom before too long, telling the same stories over and over again. I do it, too.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like stories, though. You know? Maybe I shoulda done that folklore thing. 'Cept it might goof up the pleasure, as close study sometimes does.

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[groovesinorbit]

I love stories! But you hear one for the 56th time, your mind does start to wander.

Hard to say if studying them up close would ruin the pleasure. I guess it all depends on how you approach them.