English lessons: when two people from opposite sides of the Atlantic wed, how do they keep the home fires burning? A report from Joe Queenan, author of the recently published Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.(SOCIAL GRACES)

Town & Country | June 1, 2005| | Copyright

IN THE AUTUMN of 1990, when my son turned four years old, he began to make specific, detailed inquiries regarding the possibility of obtaining an ATM card. I believe it was at this point that my wife, Francesca, a refined and elegant native of England's lovely Cotswolds, finally threw in the towel and realized that she was parenting children who inevitably were going to grow up to be American and not English. Aggressive. Acquisitive. Demanding. Precocious. Entitled. Tykes who not only demanded ATM cards but wondered what was causing the delay.

After twenty-eight ...

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