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If you’ve seen the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, you need no explanation. If you’ve never seen the movie, it goes like so…

Teen girls must be separated by summer vacations and family obligations. Pants in question are “lucky” so pants get mailed from one to the other over the course of the summer and while wearing the pants, remarkable things happen to each girl. Girl then writes about what the pants brought to her life and sends the pants on to the next girl. Obligatory girl meets boy, girl can’t have boy (forbidden relationship), girl finally gets boy because girl stands up to family for love’s sake story line. Obligatory girl thinks she’s ready for sex, girl has sex, girl learns about herself and “grows” story line. Obligatory girl deals with step family issues and girl deals with race issues story line.  Obligatory girl is an outcast and not “like everyone else” story line. Oh… there’s another obligatory story line. Someone must die. It’s a pre-teen. She’s wise for her years. It must be the disease. Without her, outcast girl would’ve never amounted to anything.  Or wait… maybe it was the pants?

I saved you a few bucks at the video store. You’re welcome. 

This though, is a different type of a sisterhood that frankly, I think would’ve made a better movie. From a Colorado news story…

(Keenesburg, Co.) – Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister’s suitcase.

“I don’t know what made me do it. The devil I guess,” she said.

Flora’s sister, Rose, found the hot dog when she opened the suitcase back up in Idaho, where she lived at the time.

“She mailed it back to me telling me to keep my garbage at home,” said Flora.

The game was on.

In the years that followed, Flora would find a way to sneak the hot dog back into Rose’s life. And Rose would find another way to sneak it back to Flora.

“I found it under my pillow once, I found it in between the drapes and once I found it in the kitchen drawer,” said Flora.

Flora still has that hot dog. It looks just about as disgusting as you might expect.

Yet, earlier this year, Flora’s sister, best friend, and victim of her continuous pranks, lost her battle with cancer.

Flora says she misses her friend, and even though it’s difficult to look at, she’ll still show you the hot dog and tell you the story behind it.

I don’t know about you, but I can imagine a whole lot of entertainment could’ve been had, had someone just followed those two gals around for a few years. That hot dog probably had way better tales than the pants.

As does Olga, who is by the way, due to arrive in Fraccyville in a couple of weeks. I’m sure Olga and I will be able to make bigger news than Flora, Rose and their hot dog.

You can count on it.

Obligatory Addendum (for the benefit of a certain British Chap who will likely require knowledge as to exactly what number post this is…) This is fraccy post number 999. Getcher party hats bras and shoes ready.