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To: carranza2 who wrote (58552)	2/11/2001 4:36:25 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I must confess before I lead you astray, that I am not a real Texan but a Virginia transplant who has faded and withered in the Dallas heat and tells her children they are not really Texans despite having lived their whole lives here. ANd I've never been to the Big Bend, but you make it sound mysterious and fascinating. At least for a day or two? Are you still there? Or are these memories from another life? I'm trying to imagine some barren, desert place... all I can think of it Tremors the movie with the giant man-eating earthworm, one of our favorites.

To: carranza2 who wrote (58552)	2/13/2001 8:52:17 AM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 71178

I love chili, too That word chili and your correct spelling of it brings to mind the weekly spelling bees in my 6th grade class in the mid-50s. I got my share of the wins, but one week I was tripped up on chili, along with everyone else except for Janie, who spelled it correctly to win that week's contest. She had never won before and was excited about being a top speller, if only for one week. In '91 our high school class had its first-ever reunion after 30 years. I hadn't seen Janie in all that time, and recalling her chili victory, I asked her if she remembered our spelling bees from 36 years earlier. She said, "Yes, I do, and I spelled 'chili' right one week to win." Amazing that two of us remembered such a tiny incident, but as they say, it's the little things .... The prize for the weekly winner was a Hershey candy bar. Sometimes the teacher would forget to bring it and would give one of us a nickel and send us hoofing down to the grocery store several blocks away to buy the candy. In today's world, it's hard to imagine a 5-cent candy bar and a teacher sending an 11-year-old kid out alone on an errand like that.