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11/15/2004: "Two Cases"

I spoke to Mrs. Grayper a couple of times in the last week. We talked about the election -- she had poured heart and soul into the Kerry campaign -- and about the sale and our friends there. She has a sunny disposition and a great enthusiasm for talk. Politically she lines up much the same as Mrs. Gummidge, but a generation younger, and the differences as well as the similarities are apparent. Mrs. Grayper has been active in business and finance, is polished and urbane, sincere and sophisticated. Mrs. Gummidge was active in the church and in the community as she raised her family; her career was in social work. Activist, outspoken, idealistic: for them both, to think is to act. I am dragging Mrs. Grayper into the project Mrs. Gummidge left this earth without seeing finished.