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Kaitlin graduated from high school. In between all of the extracurricular activities, she and her friends wrote, arranged and recorded a song that they performed for the Bacculaureate Mass, called "Purple Dress Up Box" that celebrates their transition from childhood fantasies to the "real" world. This year's newsletter features:
December 2005 After 20 years of publishing their annual Christmas greeting as a desktop-published and hand-assembled 16 page booklet, Doug and Diane decided to pull out all the stops and create The World's Longest Christmas Newsletter™. They had just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in November, and figured it was a good time to do a retrospective of their quarter century together. The
newsletter
is posted on a self-publishing website called lulu.com and
available for purchase in printed form as a 160-page, 6x9"
full-color,
This unusual publishing feat was a publicity stunt suggested by the marketing department at lulu.com, which offered to pay for printing the books in exchange for the right to promote it as a world's record. They issued a press release, which has led to interviews on three radio stations including the Canadian National Public Radio program, The Current (visit their website to listen to a replay and click on "Part1" of the broadcast). The story also appeared in the Sacramento Bee, the Silicon Valley Wave, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Tacoma News Tribune, and the Baton Rouge Louisiana Advocate newspapers.
Highlights of the 2004 edition:
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