Reposez en paix
by chuckofish
Twenty years ago today our father ANC III died. He was seventy years old.
We like to think of him as the happy three-year old on an Italian beach in 1925 (pictured here) where he lived with his ex-patriot parents, although to be honest, he looks nervous and contemplative.
According to family legend, the A.A. Milnes lived nearby and he and Christopher Robin were friends/acquaintances.
To be sure, Ernest Shepard’s illustrations of Christopher Robin look more like little ANC than the Milne’s boy. Well, whatever, our father was always a big fan of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends and enjoyed reading the stories and poems to his children. The first present he bought for his first grandchild was a hardback copy of When We Were Young.
And, yes, it is Halloween today, so I leave you with this:
Holy flurking schnit!
dual personalities 
Quelle Vintage Simpsons Quote Calendar!!
I found it stuck in a book–where else! Funny that it was a Wednesday too!
It is nice that you noted pater’s passing and I like that picture. We’ll toast him tonight at dinner.
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