Today is Sean's birthday. Kevin and I are taking him out tomorrow night to Cha Cha Cha's and to watch the Pro-City Basketball Championships.
Today is also the day Auntie Judy died; she was Sean's Godmother. And its the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, a holy day of obligation.
If I have the story right, one year on Sean's birthday Mom was going off to work at the cannery so we recorded her voice. It may have been the first time she had used a tape recorder, and she talked slowly and delibrately. Like a female Walter Cronkite: "To - day - is - the - Feast - of - the - Assump - tion. Hap- py - Birth - Day - Sean. It's - a - slurry - thing." I don't think anyone who was there will every forget it as we played it back numerous times. I wonder if anyone knows where that precious cassette tape is now.
Years later, when the answering machine became popular we had plenty of laughs trying to get her to record a natural sounding outgoing message. I'll always remember those times as well.
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