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The circular kitchen table was brimming with platters of roast beef and fried chicken, and beakers of field peas, scalloped potatoes, of high temperature chicken salad, mashed potatoes, butter beans, watermelon-rind pickles and homemade pickle relish.

This same circular table in a friend's kitchen had serv as a next to the first home for me many times during my teen years. A novel return visit brought back a rush of the same faculty of perception of comfort I felt in that kitchen years ago.

This time, I stood around the table with my husband, son and daughter as well as a entertainer of my high-school friend's family. It was of the like kind fun to return to a family and a house that had been with equal reason important in my high-school years.

My friend's family has grown exponentially above the years — a half-dozen cousins along with their girlfriends and boyfriends and level a fiance filled ...