Diana Hollingsworth Gessler Quotes

#1. To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.

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#2. Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina.

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#3. Highway 1 could be today's Route 66 with a view.

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#4. Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA

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#5. Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".

Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

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#6. Joshua Tree was named by Mormon pioneers- The arms looked like Joshua beckoning them to the promised land.

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#7. Today is the first day in history.

-One of Nathan's Daily Gems
From the 'Book Store ON Main Street'
Seal Beach, CA

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#8. Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784

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