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Jan Turnquist's avatar

As usual, I was highly entertained reading this. I have to say, I got quite an extra giggle out of: "But I promise you, up, down, sideways, and on the graves of both my late and sainted mother and Louisa May Alcott herself, that this is precisely what he did say….

“What clock?”

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Gabrielle Donnelly's avatar

Thanks for this, Jan, and for so beautifully tending the Alcott flame at lovely Orchard House, where I'm sure the ghosts are of the most delightful!

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Sheila Ebbutt's avatar

Nice one! Shx

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Gabrielle Donnelly's avatar

Thank you, Sheila!

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Joanna Milne 🏺's avatar

Brilliant twist :) Thank you - and I think I’ll share with my boys later too x

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Gabrielle Donnelly's avatar

How nice to hear from you, Joanna! Please let me know what your boys think of it, I'd be fascinated to hear ...

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Patti Barber's avatar

Love that story - I’ve dined out on it too about you !

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Gabrielle Donnelly's avatar

What I'm still digesting, Patti, is that I was sent all that way out there, all on my own, long before we had cell phones, to spend the night with a man none of us knew anything about! Glad you like the story anyway ...

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K E Koblitz's avatar

I was on the edge of my seat reading your haunted house story. I am so glad you didn't experience the night that Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris) experienced in the 1963 movie "The Haunting." That movie scared the bejesus out of me.

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Gabrielle Donnelly's avatar

Yeah, I think I'll take a pass, thanks, Karen, my days of scaring the bejesus out of myself are long gone! Glad you liked the story anyway ...

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