{"id":3985,"date":"2005-07-31T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/07\/31\/missing-lissas-party-yu-i\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:32","slug":"missing-lissas-party-yu-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/07\/31\/missing-lissas-party-yu-i\/","title":{"rendered":"missing Lissa’s party: yu & I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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8th birthday –<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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          <\/FONT>  – uncle <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>dagosan<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Sigh.<\/EM>  Lissa’s 8th Birthday party is taking place today, and I’m three<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hundred <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>miles away.  So, I can’t give her a big hug, nor <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>share a delicious <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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cake with many of my favorite <\/FONT>relatives.  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Whether she’s hanging out with Lug (the Buffalo <\/FONT><\/FONT>Bison), <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>silly-dancing, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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or sharpening her baseball skills, Lissa Giacalone <\/FONT><\/FONT>is a very<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>special <\/FONT><\/FONT>niece.   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Fellow Schenectadian Yu Chang<\/STRONG> is helping me celebrate eight years watching <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Lissa grow <\/FONT>and glow. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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she leans<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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red envelopes<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Yu Chang <\/STRONG>–<\/STRONG> from Upstate Dim Sum<\/EM> 2003\/I<\/A> & 2003\/II<\/A><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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blow out the candles — <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dad’s 86th birthday<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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             <\/FONT>                     dagosan<\/A>, Feb. 26, 2005<\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  8th birthday – she wants a diamond and new cleats               – uncle dagosan                          “baseballDiamond”     Sigh.  Lissa’s 8th Birthday party is taking place today, and I’m three hundred miles away.  So, I can’t give her a big hug, nor share a delicious cake with many of my favorite relatives.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-12h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13106,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/13106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}