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I mentioned a while back about my Mom’s geekiness.<\/p>\nI mentioned a while back about my Mom’s geekiness.<\/p>\n
She informed me proudly the other day (by phone — I’m not sure why she didn’t use the Comment feature) that she was a geek back before all these newfangled geeks came on the scene. She was an orchestra<\/i> geek.<\/p>\n
How could I have forgotten? Hell, I <\/i>was an orchestra geek. And a choir geek. And a theater geek. All long before I was a computer geek or a gaming geek.<\/p>\n
I come by it honestly, folks. On both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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