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One Wonderful Whirl. -
"The first time I ever saw you I wanted you .
. . and the first time I ever saw you I knew I'd
rather die than marry
you . , , If I were the kind of woman you want
to marry we'd never have met in the first
place—certainly we'd never have
had this week."
For months the Frake family had been looking forward
to their annual excursion to the Iowa State Fair. For Melissa and Abel it was a
triumphant occasion—a chance to walk off with blue ribbons for their
prize-winning hog and succulent home-made pickles. And for their
children, seventeen-year-old Wayne and eighteen-year-old
Mar-gy, it was a rare
opportunity to trade the chores of the farm for a taste of the thrills of
roller-coasters, games of chance, fireworks—and romance with
sophisticated strangers.
How
each of the Frakes found what he was looking
for at the Fair, and how some of them returned home sadder, but wiser, after their
exposure to city slickers, makes an exuberantly
delightful story.
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