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buy," Thelma explained with a light laugh that
punctuated most df what she said. *'He says an
informed consumer is a protected consumer. You
can't believe in advertisements. Advertisements,
especially commercials, are just full of a lot of
misinformation, right, Karl?"
"Yes, dear," Kari agreed:
I sat in the rear, and Thelma remained turned
on an angle so she could talk to me all the way to
their home--my new home---in Wappingers
Palls, New York.
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"Kail and I were childhood sweethearts. Did 11
tell you that?"
She continued before I could tell her she had.
"We started to go together in the tenth grade,
and when Kari went to college, I remained faithful
to him, and he remained faithful to me. After
he graduated and was appointed to his position at
IBM, we planned our wedding. Kari helped my
parents make all the arrangements, right down to
the best place to go for flowers, right, Kari?"
"That's true," he said, nodding. He didn't take
his eyes off the road.
"Ordinarily, Kari doesn't like to have long
conversations in the car when he's driving," Thel-
ma explained, gazing at him and Smiling. "He
says people forget how driving a car is something
that requires their full attention."
"Especially nowadays," Kari elaborated, "with
so many more cars on the road, so many more
teenage drivers and older drivers. Those two age
groups account for more than sixty percent of all
accidents."
"Kari has all sorts of statistics like that floating
around his nund," Thelma said proudly. "Just
last week, I was thinking about replacing our gas
stove with a new electric range, and Kari conerted
BTUs... is that it, Kari? BTUs?"
"yes" - . , -
"BTUs into pennies of cost and showed mehow
the gas stove was more efficient. Isn't it wonderful

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to have a husband like Kari who can keep you
from making the wrong decisions?"
I smiled and gazed out the windows. The or
phanage wasn't much more than fifty or so miles