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qotd, even Honest Abe

"And for that matter, may I call as my witness Abraham Lincoln, who is reported to have walked up and down the street in Springfield, Ill., in the mid-1800s, pulling his young sons in a wagon while reading a book (and as the story goes, he went right on reading when a child fell out of the wagon)."

-- Dr. Perri Klass, The Guilty Secret of Distracted Parenting

For the record, I read a lot of magazines while the kids were young. They were easier to carry and the articles were better suited to my non-existent attention span.

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She's a long time knitter & author of "Two Sweaters for My Father" - good reading & a very interesting woman!!

Huh. I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!

She used to write a column in Knitters' years ago. I loved reading her - Get her book - it's wonderful.

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