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----- Original Message -----
From: Heidi Carroll <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: Unforgettable exhibit


> It got them into the exhibit didn't it?!
>
> There doesn't need to be any logic.  They wanted to see the exhibit and
> didn't get in, but were so close.  By getting a wheel chair, the guards
let
> them in to see the exhibit.  What coming from Africa has to do with
needing
> a wheel chair?  Nothing.  But no one picked up on that at the time
> apparently and they got in to see the exhibit.
>
>
> >
> >My mom didnt' want to lie to the guy so she just said we came from Africa
> >and needed a wheelchair allowing the guard to make a mental leap if he
> >wanted to.  Who can explain the workings of a mother's mind?
> > >>From curiousity why does just coming from Africa make sense when
asking
> >for
> > >a wheelchair?  I'm not sure that i follow the logic of the story.
> > >
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Shirley Kathryn Woods <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:15 AM
> > >Subject: Re: Unforgettable exhibit
> > >
> > >
> > >> The Mask of King Tutanhkamun during the 1974 tour in the US of King
> >Tut's
> > >> treasures.  My parents and I were back in the States for only a few
> >weeks
> > >> (living in Africa at the time). The line around the National Gallery
> > >> wrapped the building 5 times.  My mom stood in line for tickets and
> >missed
> > >> them by two people.  So she asked the guard at the door if she could
> >get a
> > >> wheelchair for her daughter as we had just come from Africa.  She
came
> >and
> > >> got me out of ring 4 and said "Look pale, we're going in."  (I was so
> > >> scared the guards were going to know I wasn't really sick that it was
> >easy
> > >> for me to look pale the whole time!) I got to see the whole exhibit
> >from
> > >> the comfort of a wheelchair but had to stand when we saw the
Mask--I'd
> > >seen
> > >> a hundred pictures of it before, but nothing prepared me for the
beauty
> > >and
> > >> wonder of seeing it in person.
> > >> Incidentally, my mom made me push her around the rest of the National
> > >> Gallery that day.
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