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Last week my daughter Marisa drove over from Ponca City for a visit. She brought my second oldest granddaughter Jolie who had flown in from her home in Connecticut. Jolie likes to make the most of her trips to Oklahoma, seeing as many relatives as possible.

The plan was that they would arrive about 11 a.m. for an early lunch because they had to leave at noon for another location. Then plans changed, and they had more time, two hours more. That was great until …

After lunch at a local restaurant, we had two hours left. We could return to the newspaper office or go to my house. The house was the...