aurelia, I love you. My family used to do word games like that on every summer car trip ever; reading about Nancy Yancey just gave me such a visceral wave of... not just nostalgia, but SUMMER, and the car bouncing over crummy road and the dog sticking her nose in the air vent and Lake Tahoe off in the distance. It was like deeply concentrated 99% pure distilled essence of summer in one quick moment. I seriously think I'm going to be summer-giddy all day. Thank you for that, so much!
Aw JZ, glad I could evoke that warm fuzzy for you.