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tricks’ White Walnut Hill. “Most of them are in out-of-state cars. They come up to the house, people who just want to shake his hand or say hello. I’ve had perfect strangers knock on the door and ask if they can walk through and see the house! I tell them, ‘I’m terribly sorry. I’m only the housekeeper. The Madam isn’t in.’” Mrs. Kilpatrick said, laughing' quietly. “I think the dear Lord forgives me those little lies!”

The attraction for these strangers is, of course, her chief taster and jar-top-unscrewer, James J. Kilpatrick, nationally syndicated columnist, author and political pundit who appears every week on Agronsky and Company.

He’s the reason why the manuscript ever crossed a publisher’s desk. “I didn’t really write this to be published. I wrote it for our five granddaughters as a family history, so they’d know why they eat certain dishes at grandmother’s house at certain times of the year. But Jack said it should be published. I think he was a little surprised that I wrote it - that I could or would.”

She gave the pages to her husband to look over, knowing that this conservatively discriminating critic

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