From: Kids Ink Children's Bookstore <kidsink_at_indy.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:26:55 -0500

Elsa, Thank you for sharing such a beautiful, intimate memory. Shirley

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From: Elsa Marston To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: 4/17/2011 3:55:07 PM Subject:
 Reading aloud

The most recent comments, from Angie, Sheila, and Dan, make me want to share my own experience.

For years I read to my husband in bed, and although finding the right kind of book was not always easy, it was a little ritual that we both enjoyed a great deal. One night we settled down, looking forward to tennis in the morning; he cued me for my part in a funny play I was in, and then I read to him from The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, which made us both laugh. He went to sleep smiling--and never woke up again. I shall always be thankful for the happy moments that reading aloud brought us, and to E.L. Konigsburg for writing that book.

Elsa www.elsamarston.com

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