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Leopard Skin and Grandmothers ~ A Bad Mix?
What should I do about my mother-in-law? She is gregarious and
outspoken. Frankly she appalls me. Which brings me to another
question - should a grandmother wear leopard skin capri pants?
Signed, A Dear Shocked: Leopard print! I bet the grandkids love that. So please, for
the sake of the children, accept your mother-in-law for the wild
woman that she is. I’m betting you’re never going to
change her, so it’s time to relax, and enjoy as much as her
personality as possible. The following, from Eric Hatch's 1956
Spousery: Her Edition, won’t help you do that, unfortunately,
but I found it entertaining. 1956: In-Laws
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One
of the things that in any microscopic study of In-Laws is too
often forgotten is that In-Laws are people! In plainer language
- in order to get to be In-Laws themselves, however unlikely it
seems, they had to have In-Laws! Furthermore, their In-Laws’
In Laws had to have In-Laws. The Mathematical Progression principle
applied to this produces staggering results. Viz: It takes four
In-Laws to produce one married person, thus there are, at a given
period in your married life - say when you’re around thirty
- perhaps eight times as many In-Laws in the world as their are
married couples - not counting step-In-Laws.