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games. Each member of the sports family has a favorite player and generally has at least three pieces of clothing on which that player's team color and number is emblazoned.
Some families are art families. Art families generally have a favorite medium, but every artistic endeavor from a two-year old's scribbles to an adult's wood carving is oohed and aahed over like a brand new baby. The art family will discuss a project only after it has been created and will undoubtedly decide it is perfect, because there is no way to do art wrong.
Little Billy's third grade clay sculpture of a blowfish is proudly displayed on the dining table. Aunt Rowena's watercolor of a lily graces the entrance hall.
No one ever mentions Aunt Rowena's flower-child past except when she is hallucinating and they never mention that her lily looks more like an albino octopus.
Likewise, little Billy never let on that his "blowfish" was supposed to be a flower vase. Everyone turned it on its side and decided it was a blowfish
so that's what it is. The art family is like that.
Our family is a science family. Our house looks like any other from the outside, but inside, you will not see posters of quarterbacks throwing a football or paint (Continued on page 3)
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