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1. "Christmas at the Bordens"
Posted by adminlizzieborden on Jan-8th-02 at 9:19 PM

By augusta on Sunday, 12/23/2001 - 02:24 am [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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I wonder what the Bordens got each other for Christmas?

 
By kat on Sunday, 12/23/2001 - 08:26 am [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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I've wondered about the fact that Uncle John Morse left town as soon as he was able after the grand jury indictment in early December to go back west, leaving grieving(?) nieces to their own unhappy devises over that 1892-1893 Holiday season with Lizzie incarcerated!
Merry Christmas to you Uncle John Scrooge!

 
By harry on Sunday, 12/23/2001 - 10:44 am [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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Hopefully someone got a partridge for the pear tree.

 
By tinar on Sunday, 12/23/2001 - 06:48 pm [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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Very clever, Harry! 

 
By raystephanson on Sunday, 12/23/2001 - 06:58 pm [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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Uncle John had his own business to look after; was he named in the will? Wasn't a bond posted for him as a material witness?

 
By kat on Monday, 12/24/2001 - 01:08 am [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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It turns out that the symbol of a partridge in a pear tree meant the giver believed the receipient was "untrue" or "unfaithful" (not in the Biblical sense..)- but not "constant" in their feelings.
Also the "five golden rings" were Golden Ringed Pheasants (as in birds).
But I thought you were hilarious Harry!
About Morse: hadn't he "been east" a year and a half, already, just hangin' out? So why leave them at Christmas, when he could have waited like just 3 more weeks!

 
By raystephanson on Monday, 12/24/2001 - 01:16 pm [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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Obviously either the train schedule, or an important event, required him to leave then.
Another thing we'll never know?

 
By kat on Monday, 12/24/2001 - 10:03 pm [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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It would HAVE to be pretty important. As you mentioned, he was on bond, and first needed permission. Then, it was Winter and travel out west must have been pretty awful. And that's like, what? 1000 miles? At the Holiday Season, with his dear orphaned niece IN JAIL?! Such familial closeness & loyalty!
"Oh, but don't worry, Lizzie, I'll bring you back a pony..."

 
By kashesan on Wednesday, 12/26/2001 - 12:20 pm [Edit] [Reply] [Msg Link]  
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Lizzie might have preferred those Christmas tree lots where you chop down your own!