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neighbor around to sign, since we're gone all day.
Also we only live a couple of blocks from the main Cambridge
P.O., so could easily pick parcels up. We were
lucky with the chaise covers, since a neighbor we
didn't even know saw them sitting there & kept them
for us until we got home, because she's wise to the
ways of the local kids. We really have very nice neighbors,
& they're from all over the world. On Halloween
I took the kids around our building & the one next to
it, about 40 apartments distributed in 3 story bldgs,
& that was plenty. We had a good look at the international
flavor of the place though, & there's quite a
variety. Most of them are pretty busy with the reasons that
brought them here, but we've managed to meet
quite a few, some of whom have kids going to the same
Nursery School as our kids. I expect we'll see a lot more
of them in the summer when the evenings are longer
& this abominable weather goes away. We'd make a
lot of friends fast if Jim started fixing people's stuff but
that's one of the things we came here to get relief from.
The boiler keeps him busy enough.

The biggest problem I anticipate at present is
where to start Pooh in the first grade. This Nursery
School also has after-school day care, so at least
that problem is solved & the kids can be together in the