Dan Minette wrote:
>
> I got local news that I can never remember hearing
> growing up. I should start by saying that my
> daughter, Beth, has gone to more funeral
> parlors/funerals than her mother and I have.
> I think that she's gone to funerals for seven
> schoolmates over the last four years.
>
It surprises me that a statistics freak like
you should fall for this trap :-)
I imagine the _sample_ of your daughter's aknowlegments
is much bigger than the one you had when you were
your daughter's age
BTW, since the school class of my daughters is
_much_ smaller than mine was, they have never had
any death among classmates.
Alberto Monteiro