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• 1.  jcb21

  Saki!

  April 22, 2009 at 1:27 pm

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• 2.  Hmm

  I love that running the marathon is almost an afterthought. It’s like she’s asking if the daughter picked up some shopping for her.

  April 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm

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• 3.  KAB

  I also love that the Boston Marathon is an afterthought – a jog in the park, perhaps? I walked a marathon last fall after training all summer and my mom said a few DAYS later, “How did your walk go?” I just said it went fine, figuring my time and other information might require explanation and she said, “So how far was that?”

  I just don’t know sometimes…I suppose she has no frame of reference for the mental/physical prep of a marathon! Too bad it wasn’t captured in an email. :)

  April 23, 2009 at 11:06 am

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• 4.  DB

  Or . . . maybe she has run the Boston Marathon every year for the last 15 years, and runs a marathon a month? Why does everyone automatically assume that the Boston Marathon was something special for this woman? It could be that her marathons are so much a part of her life that her family just accepts it as “normal”, and her mom was just being polite? This comes from being married to a man who spent the first three years of our married life running a marathon every other weekend, and training about 90 miles a week — for us, a marathon was just an excuse for a weekend trip! He’d do the marathon, and we’d spend the rest of the weekend sightseeing, visiting with running friends, etc.

  And H. H. Munro’s pen name was “Saki”!

  April 26, 2009 at 11:37 pm

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• 5.  Ms. Munro

  Saki! I kind of have to know this one…

  May 10, 2009 at 11:19 pm

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