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Dueling Sonnets After getting his MBA, Daddy worked for several years in Newark, Ohio. Many weekends he would make the trip back to Washington, PA. Aine -- my grandmother, Mary Eliza Bond Boord, was a poet. She belonged to a number of poetry societies. She was extremely disciplined and entered every competition that was available to her. Daddy used to tell a story about coming home on a Friday to find his mother extremely upset. The poetry competition called for a sonnet, and she claimed she couldnt write a sonnet. Daddy went out with friends that night and returned quite late. Everybody was in bed. He sat down at the kitchen table and wrote a sonnet, leaving it with a note to his mother saying if I can do it, you can do it. By the time he got up on Saturday morning, she had already answered the challenge. And, of course, a fact he never let her live down, her sonnet won the competition.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:49:33 +0000

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