In article >, dsi1
says...
>
> On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 4:11:39 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > dsi1 wrote:
> > >
> > >I used to make fruitcake with my mom. It was the only activity that we did together.
> > >These days I don't make fruitcake but I'm glad that I got to spend that time with
> > >my mom because it was our time exclusively.
> >
> > That's very weird, are you certain that was your mother... I did more
> > activities with my mom than I can think of all at once... we cooked
> > many things together practically every day, we'd go out to eat
> > together, we went to movies together, we visited lots of museums,
> > zoos, and botanical gardens, and a lot more together, broadway shows,
> > concerts, even the planetarium. Are you saying you didn't watch TV
> > with your mom... who helped with your school homework? For as far
> > back as I can remember my mome read to me every night, she taught me
> > to read, by the time I was three years old I was reading at today's
> > high school level. In 1949 my mom bought me a complete 24 volume set
> > of Britannica, before I was ten years old I read every word cover to
> > cover, including the atlas.
>
> Obviously, we did other things together. Baking the fruitcake was special. Other than that, I don't really remember much about my childhood.

What a clash of personalities! One's a genius the likes of which the
world has never seen before and the other one spent his entire childhood
baking fruitcakes.