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lucy-list-digest Tuesday, September 18 2001 Volume 03 : Number 197
In this issue:
[lucy-list] the wayfaring stranger
[lucy-list] amazon. review
[lucy-list] the lucy poster
Re: [lucy-list] amazon review
[lucy-list] Tennis Ball
Re: [lucy-list] Tennis Ball
[lucy-list] Swimming Song
Re: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
Re: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
[lucy-list] Article in Saturday's Washington Times
[lucy-list] ESD
[lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
[lucy-list] beware of the amazon search..
Re: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
RE: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:47:39 EDT
From: Sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] the wayfaring stranger
thanks.. don.. thanks libby.. you forgot a few critical details..of the
beginning
of saturday night..firstly.. i LOCKed 2 sets of keys in my car...
and then if it wasnt for the 2 dozen bagels and 2 pizzas that needed to be
turned in the cooler.. i am not sure i would have done so..
my first meeting with Don..another main man.. added to my list.. was
a blur as i was running to the speed of sound..in the door to get my number
and to use the restroom..........then i could have a decent conversation
it was a pleasure to becomed south of the NY/NJ area ..by the lucy fans..
and MAn were they out ..
ellis paul opened with a remarkable good set for him.. he did alot of new
songs
and his old stories were not stale..i was surprised as many times as i have
seen him.. sing angel from manhattan and how many NYC references he has
- -including marias beautiful mess.. he didnot mention.. the "national" crisis
as
as its callled outside of NY.. we dont hear about the national crisis .. as
susan..said.. most people have the destruction in their country.. you have it
you
F**7in livingroom...
which bring me to lucy....
the shifting sands of time cd.. www.wayfaring stranger.com cd.. lists..lucys
version of wayfaring stranger as the beacon of truth and goodness and
beauty.. and it was
www.rounder.com..
lucy took the stage... and immediately.. it was
wayfaring stranger.. a song she rarely performs..
then...
back of the hand.. and one good reason..
with the three depressing life affirming song over and lucy more relaxed
she talked
lucy opened up.. about seeing the towers crash from her 1/4 mile away
livingroom
window and mustered the pain.. and the hope and the thanks to be with loved
ones
(he husband..for the week she spent with him) she told us she went outside to
feel.. smell .see the village on wednesday and hte surreal nature of the
street
she had been.. thinking monday about her record release..sales and more and
then Poof.. it wasnt important.. ---as rick and i decided my locked keys
werent important when you have AAA
lucy went on and choked up.. delivered an honest observation ..
( i found the outter city experience quiet different..and how important is
was to get back to work.. for lucy too and how away from NY.. even near DC...
the overload of
the distrcution in NY was different...seen differently.. )
lucy played
nowhere
written on the back of the hand
More than this ..complete with brian ferry story
guilty as sin
song for molly .. encore...
dont mind me..
broken things.. with her story of being called from belfast to talk about the
state of NYC.. and how in belfast.. where destrcution was a way of life..
they were concerned
UK loves her.. solo on guitar
by way of sorrow.. not back to back.. there is a law.. no julie miller songs
back to back..solo
end of the day
turn the lights back on..
PI. the song about a number.. which was the funniest version..lucy informed
the auduence earlier there would be music entertainment and humor
mrs kaplansky stories
and just You tonight.. on the piano...solo
scorpion..
lucy played with ben butler on guitar.. who was amazing.. he and lucy were
creating
magic and more on that stage.. and he is very very cute..
i hope ben becomes a regular to her performances. i liked him better than jon
herrington
a standing ovation was in order and a second encore was screamed for..
the club couldnt allow it.. the club staff were in awe of this black haired
angel
who graced their stage..
and its true music heals the soul.. even for a few hours...
thanks to my hosts.. and my friends.. and new friends.. made
and to chris for finding me in .. among all the people.. i hope to see you
again
and to lucy for giving us another night of giving the gift of herself..
and as for thrusday.. send the book.. the cd needs to be launched and NOW is
the time...
thanks to rick.... for being himself.. as usual..
it took me 5 hours to travel from exit 13.. ask gorka..about that one to the
enterance of the NJ gothels bridge a 10 minute ride.. and a 5 hour trip from
DC was
doubled to 10.. and as i waited.. good thing dave mckay got out .. i would
have stranded that wayfaring stranger at newark for a bit.. well gene shay
from XPN
played High on moutain.. from the wayfaring stranger cd.. and it was lucy in
my radio.. that kept me sane.. a bit...
thanks again..
sharonG
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:15:28 EDT
From: Sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] amazon. review
here is the amazon review...
i know on the chapin.. list when they disagreed with the reviewer of
time sex love.. the chapin list.. members wrote to express their difference
this interpreter .. not a songwriter.. title will be passe.. its old and tired
nothing wrong with interpreting.. give the woman her due.. she and rick
write great lyrics....
not a songwriter.. .....
huh..
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
With three albums and the successful Cry Cry Cry collaboration with Dar
Williams and Richard Shindell under her belt (not to mention a cult following
in the New England folk scene), Lucy Kaplansky could have consciously
attempted to break out with wider acclaim and sales. Instead, she has turned
in her most quiet, atmospheric, and even mysterious recording to date. In the
wash of drummer Ben Wittman's Lanois-esque production--lots of reverbed
guitar and moody percussion layers--Kaplansky sings of sins of flesh and
soul, all the existential doubts suggested by sex, cities, and (as on the
heartbreaking "Song for Molly") senility. Kaplansky will never be the
songwriter that peers like John Gorka or Ellis Paul are, but she's a fine
interpreter with good taste in material, as demonstrated by her engaging
takes on Julie Miller's "Broken Things," Steve Earle's "You're Still Standing
There," and the Louvin Brothers' gospel gem "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night."
- --Roy Kasten
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:31:01 EDT
From: Sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] the lucy poster
okay.. one more.. the poster.. is a new and different pix of DOC.. than the
ones
on the cd.. its magnificent.. in the same theme. as the cd.. is hair and
makeup
professional.. for sure.. and a little.. cover.. of the cd in the corner
someone stole it at the birchmere.. fore i could... darn.. darn..
and i think my boots are in Virginia.. i left my boots in virginia.. maybe
that was
an old virginia folk song.. from the old dominion... those boots of english
leather.. what if bob dylan wanted Doc martens.. not spanish leather.. those
boots
that have went to more folk shows than.. i have.. now..
call gillian welch.. to write the song..
it takes a lot to laugh, a lot to crycrycry....
sharon
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:13:09 -0400
From: Tom Neff
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] amazon review
- --On Monday, September 17, 2001 8:15 AM -0400 Sdgold60@aol.com wrote:
> i know on the chapin list when they disagreed with the reviewer of
> time sex love, the chapin list members wrote to express their
> difference
>
> this interpreter not a songwriter title will be passe.. its old and
> tired nothing wrong with interpreting.. give the woman her due.. she and
> rick write great lyrics....
> not a songwriter.. .....
> huh..
I'm not sure you actually said what part of the review is supposed to be
wrong. If there is nothing wrong with interpreting, then there is nothing
passe' about calling someone an interpreter. Kasten thinks that Gorka and
Paul are stronger songwriters. If you don't, then which Lucy/Rick song is
stronger than, or as strong as, John or Ellis's best work? That would
disprove Kasten's point easily. With all love and props to Lucy and Rick,
I'm having trouble coming up with an example.* That doesn't bother me
because for me, it's not a contest, but it's a legit comparison for a
reviewer to make.
Kasten also mentions something about a "cultlike following" in New England.
Now, what do you suppose he could possibly be talking about?? :)
- -- a proud (but open-eyed) cultmember
ps the part of the review I disagree with is the first sentence. I think
Lucy and Bob Feldman have every intention of breaking out with EVERY SINGLE
DAY, and I wish them great success in doing it. Solid material,
intelligently promoted when the market is ready, is where breakouts come
from - not lurching from one style to another in search of the "right
sound."
* Actually I still think "Still Life" is as good as any folk song in the
last 10 years, so I guess I do disagree with Kasten overall, but I don't
know whether I hear a match for it on ESD. Gorka should cover "Still Life"
some time, he would, um, interpret it awesomely.
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:21:38 -0400
From: "Lawlor, Barry"
Subject: [lucy-list] Tennis Ball
I went to the Birchmere on Saturday....to see Ellis Paul. I have been a fan
as of recently and he didn't disappoint. It is my humble opinion that he
didn't mention the tragedy as he was giving that to Lucy. I almost didn't
go as I could not GIVE my extra ticket away to any of my friends (I had an
extra ticket because a friend that was supposed to fly
in...well....understandably couldn't make it). So, here I was with two
tickets and a sad heart. I decided that I would go and see Ellis Paul and
if I didn't like Lucy to well, I would just leave (forgive
me...blasphemy...I joined this list to see what "LUCY" I should listen to
before the "ELLIS PAUL SHOW"). So that was me down front sitting by
myself...don't feel bad for me because it was a time of healing for my heart
and soul.
By the way very good advice to buy "Ten Year Night" first and then buy ESD
at the show. I am now a fan for life. Lucy, covered one of my favorite
songs "Broken Things", by Julie Miller.
I will have to say that this is probably the first show I have ever been to
where I felt like I was helping the musician as much as the musician was
entertaining me.
Ohhh and the subject line of this is something that one of my softball
buddies told me. He said that if you ever lock your keys in your car and
don't have a coat hanger, but do have a Tennis Ball. You cut a little hole
in the ball and hold it next to the lock...and squeeze. The air pressure
presses the lock up. Just another urban legend? Maybe. Helpful
hint...probably not.
Anyway....I wanted to thank y'all for pointing me in the right "Lucy"
direction.
Barry
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Elizabeth (Libby) Wiebel"
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Tennis Ball
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Lawlor, Barry wrote:
> By the way very good advice to buy "Ten Year Night" first and then buy ESD
> at the show. I am now a fan for life. Lucy, covered one of my favorite
> songs "Broken Things", by Julie Miller.
Ahhh.... *satisfied sigh*.... another convert... :)
> Ohhh and the subject line of this is something that one of my softball
> buddies told me. He said that if you ever lock your keys in your car and
> don't have a coat hanger, but do have a Tennis Ball. You cut a little hole
> in the ball and hold it next to the lock...and squeeze. The air pressure
> presses the lock up. Just another urban legend? Maybe. Helpful
> hint...probably not.
And wouldn't ya know.... I *did* have a tennis ball in my car.... one
potentially useful thing among all the other rubble dust and musical
instruments... that everyone quickly deemed would be of NO help
whatsoever... :)
Take care all... and glad to year you enjoyed, Barry!
Libby
- --
- ---------------------------------
Libby Wiebel | ewiebel@cs.wm.edu
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ewiebel
- -----------------------------------------------------
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find
that I just lived the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well." ~ Diane Ackerman
- -----------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:35:37 -0400
From: "Lawlor, Barry"
Subject: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
I am being lazy (as I have been known to do every once....well a lot) and
don't have Internet access currently. Which of her CD's is this on? That
was sooo much fun.
Barry
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Elizabeth (Libby) Wiebel"
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
It's not. She just does it periodically on stage.
Words and lyrics are in "Rise Up Singing..."
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Lawlor, Barry wrote:
> I am being lazy (as I have been known to do every once....well a lot) and
> don't have Internet access currently. Which of her CD's is this on? That
> was sooo much fun.
>
> Barry
>
- --
- ---------------------------------
Libby Wiebel | ewiebel@cs.wm.edu
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ewiebel
- -----------------------------------------------------
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find
that I just lived the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well." ~ Diane Ackerman
- -----------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:45:47 -0400
From: "Kristen Myshrall"
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
Not on a cd :( Just a fun song that she does live...maybe some day :)
Keep the questions coming..you're slowly but surely helping me to finish my
Lucy FAQ
Kristen
www.angelfire.com/folk/lucykaplansky
>From: "Lawlor, Barry"
>Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org
>To: "'lucy-list@smoe.org'"
>Subject: [lucy-list] Swimming Song
>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:35:37 -0400
>
>I am being lazy (as I have been known to do every once....well a lot) and
>don't have Internet access currently. Which of her CD's is this on? That
>was sooo much fun.
>
>Barry
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:51:22 -0500
From: "jvotel"
Subject: [lucy-list] Article in Saturday's Washington Times
A new 'Day' for singer Lucy Kaplansky
By Jay Votel
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky took a long, hard look at life's
darker side in the material she wrote for her latest recording, "Every
Single Day," issued nationally on Tuesday.
The territory is familiar for a folk artist who formerly worked as
a psychotherapist. Despite this record's haunting stories of abuse and
illicit love affairs, and even coming as it does after the largely
romantic "Ten Year Night," her third album on Red House Records in 1999,
the songs on "Every Single Day" depict, more than anything else, Miss
Kaplansky's growth as a songwriter.
"It's exactly the way I wanted it to sound, and more," Miss
Kaplansky says, last month during a break in her touring schedule. "I
knew that group of people would be able to produce the sound I wanted."
Miss Kaplansky is marking the CD's release with a concert that was
scheduled for tonight in Alexandria at the Birchmere Music Hall.
Drummer Ben Wittman, who produced "Ten Year Night," also produced
"Every Single Day." Also making a repeat appearance on this record is
Larry Campbell from Bob Dylan's Never-Ending-Tour band, who has played
mandolin, pedal steel guitar, fiddle and cittern on previous Kaplansky
records.
But Miss Kaplansky also enlisted notable guitar sidemen Jon
Herington and Duke Levine, and bassist Zev Katz. Singing harmony are
Jennifer Kimball, long-time partner-in-harmony John Gorka, former Cry
Cry Cry bandmate Richard Shindell and Buddy Miller, whose wife, Julie
Miller, wrote one of the four cover songs that appear on the disc.
"These were just the topics that I felt were interesting songs,"
Miss Kaplansky says. "Even if they aren't about me, there has to be some
piece of me that they are about. They aren't a narrative. What's
important to me is that the songs are good, not what they're about. If
they're dark, they're dark."
Miss Kaplansky co-writes with her husband, New York University film
professor Richard Litvin.
"There are only so many love songs you can write," she says. "The
kind of things that were occurring to Rick and me were other things."
Mr. Litvin came up with the idea for the opening track, "Written on
the Back of His Hand," which Miss Kaplansky says is about "abuse, and
in a very oblique, roundabout way, the way someone gets around that --
i.e., therapy. We tried to sort of make a portrait of the process you go
through if you want to overcome that sort of abuse."
Mr. Litvin also added some of the finishing touches to "Guilty as
Sin," the story of a woman who has a series of affairs with married men.
"We tried to look at it as what she is trying to get
psychologically and what she's trying to resolve. She's got this need to
be this person who wins and turns away, but she keeps going after the
unavailable, the unattainable. It's not about love, but it's about a
need to resolve an unresolved issue."
"Nowhere," a song set in Greenwich Village, where Miss Kaplansky
lives, actually was written during her tour of Britain last year, while
she waited out a rainstorm in an English hotel room. But the subject
matter is straight from Miss Kaplansky's former work as a therapist.
"It's a portrait of someone disassociating, very much based on my
experiences working with patients," she says.
Music for the title cut was supplied by Mr. Levine, and Miss
Kaplansky plunged into writing lyrics. "I was very inspired from that
music. It was different from anything I had ever written," she says.
"The lyric was satisfying because it took months. Two of the key
lines came to me literally when I was waking from a dream," she says.
The song describes a performer who disguises his true feelings. Miss
Kaplansky says the performer is a composite, a fictional character.
Characters in some of the other songs are real. In "No More
Excuses," Miss Kaplansky completes a trilogy of angry songs she started
with "The Thief" on her second record, "Flesh and Bone" in 1996, and
carried through with "Turn the Lights Back On" on "Ten Year Night." The
unnamed subject of all three songs is a self-centered person who hurts
others, including the narrator, and who can't face life honestly.
"Song For Molly," the critics' early favorite for this record, is
the only autobiographical song on "Every Single Day." The song revolves
around Miss Kaplansky's memories of her grandmother, "who had
Parkinson's and was in a nursing home from the time I was about 10 -- a
nursing home near my house. Gradually, she lost more and more of her
memory. The nursing home was the saddest place I have ever been."
The more upbeat, "Don't Mind Me," was written for Seattle filmmaker
Sherman Alexie. No takers have emerged for the film so far, which would
have included a part for Miss Kaplansky. But the project produced a pop
tune. "It just sort of came out that way," she says, "it wasn't really
planned."
Miss Kaplansky says she chose her covers carefully to
counterbalance the darker core songs on the record. Aside from Julie
Miller's sad "Broken Things," Miss Kaplansky says the covers are "much
more hopeful and lighthearted." They are Paul Brady's "Crazy Dreams,"
"You're Still Standing There" by Steve Earle and the bluegrass gem "The
Angels Rejoiced Last Night" by the Louvin Brothers, Ira and Charlie.
Miss Kaplansky has met with growing success during the past eight
years. After earning her doctorate and working in New York as a hospital
therapist -- all the while contributing harmony on folk records her
friends were making, she issued "The Tide" in 1994. That disc,
comprising mostly cover songs, and "Flesh and Bone," for which she wrote
most of the songs, reached the Top 10 and Top 20 respectively on the
Gavin Report's Americana charts. "Ten Year Night" was her breakthrough.
The title song was the second-most-played song on folk radio in 1999,
and "End of the Day" from that CD was on the BBC's national playlist for
more than two months last year. Those accomplishments, combined with
the 1999 Cry Cry Cry tour with Mr. Shindell and Dar Williams, expanded
Miss Kaplansky's fan base exponentially.
She has guarded hopes for "Every Single Day."
"The music business is so tough, all you can hope for is that your
fans like it and that maybe it will bring you some new fans," she says.
But, perhaps, this record will "make it bigger, so I can go out [and
perform] with backup musicians more often. That is my dream. I'd like
that trend to continue."
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
- --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:42:38 -0400
From: Tom Neff
Subject: [lucy-list] ESD
I realized I don't want my reply to Sharon to be all I say about ESD...
As an album it's way my favorite so far... smoothly listenable again and
again (if that's all ya got! which it was in the truck this morning...).
The cleanest sound, the most consistent writing level song-to-song, the
most grownup covers. And I love Larry's slide!
A friend of mine who knows.. the DOC.. saw the disc and said "Ah, they
finally got the cover right." I agree!
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:31:18 EDT
From: Sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
it a loudon wainwright III cover..
his version is not as sensual as lucys...
The Swimming Song
by Loudon Wainwright III
This summer I went swimming
THis summer I might have drowned
But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
And I moved my arms around.
I moved my arms around.
This summer I swam in the ocean
Swam in the swimming pool
Salt in my wounds, chlorine in my eyes,
I'm a self-destructive fool,Self-destructive fool.
This summer I did the backstroke,
And you know that thats not all.
I did the breast stroke and the butterfly,
And the old Australian crawl,
The old Australian crawl.
This summer I swam in a public place and a reservoir to boot,
At the latter I was informal,
At the former I wore my suit,
I wore my swimming suit.
This summer I did swan dives and Jack knives for you all.
And once when you weren't lookingI did a cannonball
I did a cannonball.
This summer I went swimming
THis summer I might have drowned
But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
And I moved my arms around.
I moved my arms around.
for dave... whereever he may be....
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:07:11 EDT
From: Sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] beware of the amazon search..
this am.. while searching amazon.com.. i plugged in
kaplansky... and saw the cds..
and books.. all under the name... kaplansky .. irving... dr...
oh no math book.. with very math names...
try it.. buy em..
sharon
umm tennis balls.... thanks .,. thats why i pay AAA
best 24 dollars.. a year i spend...
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:46:54 -0500
From: " Gina"
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
I've heard Loudon do The Swimming Song several times. But, when I heard
Lucy do it, I got a whole new meaning out of it. I interpret it to be about
risk taking now. When Loudon did it, I just saw it as a fun, silly little
song.
I didn't know Lucy's husband was named Rick. They must be SOOOOO tired of
jokes.
- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
> it a loudon wainwright III cover..
> his version is not as sensual as lucys...
>
> The Swimming Song
> by Loudon Wainwright III
> This summer I went swimming
> THis summer I might have drowned
> But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
> And I moved my arms around.
> I moved my arms around.
> This summer I swam in the ocean
> Swam in the swimming pool
> Salt in my wounds, chlorine in my eyes,
> I'm a self-destructive fool,Self-destructive fool.
>
> This summer I did the backstroke,
> And you know that thats not all.
> I did the breast stroke and the butterfly,
> And the old Australian crawl,
> The old Australian crawl.
>
> This summer I swam in a public place and a reservoir to boot,
> At the latter I was informal,
> At the former I wore my suit,
> I wore my swimming suit.
>
> This summer I did swan dives and Jack knives for you all.
> And once when you weren't lookingI did a cannonball
> I did a cannonball.
>
> This summer I went swimming
> THis summer I might have drowned
> But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
> And I moved my arms around.
> I moved my arms around.
>
> for dave... whereever he may be....
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:59:36 -0400
From: "Pat Grismore"
Subject: RE: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
You mean you've never noticed------ Published by Lucyricky Music. in the
liner notes!!!
Pat
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-lucy-list@smoe.org [mailto:owner-lucy-list@smoe.org]On
Behalf Of Gina
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:47 PM
To: lucy-list@smoe.org
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] the summer i went swimming..
- --clip--
I didn't know Lucy's husband was named Rick. They must be SOOOOO tired of
jokes.
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