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When Pigs Fly!

When Serenity and I were at the park today with some other homeschooling families, enjoying the warm sunshine of February, a group of high school kids arrived at the park, one dressed in pink as a pig. The story was he had asked a girl to the winter formal dance and she said "When Pigs Fly" and this was his reaction to that. Supposedly the girls mom was supposed to get her to the park to see him up in the air but we left before she got there so we don't know the result of the boy's efforts. I sort of hope he got the date after all of that effort. :-)

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