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Petra the black swan was reunited with her one true love, a big paddleboat shaped like a fellow swan.
Petra fell in love with the swan/boat in 2006 and refused to leave its side. She became so attached that the pair was taken to a local zoo in Germany when winter came and Petra refused to leave her beloved.
The black swan had tried to have a “normal relationship” with a real male swan, but he left her recently. So she’s alone … with her boat. And she’s happy.
Whoever came up with the tongue-in-cheek talking fish advertisements on MBTA trains for Legal Sea Foods should be given a nice fat raise, maybe an award and certainly a promotion after the Boston Globe put them on page one and Fox 25 ran a two-minute video package focusing on the ads.
You can’t buy ad space on page one of the Globe. But Legal found out a way to get it there.
The news stories focused on minor controversy that arose when a T conductor complained about an ad that said “This conductor has a face like a halibut.”
Now Legal Sea Foods and its family ownership can smile because this is the best ad campaign they’ve ever run and everyone in the region knows about it.
Alfred Webber, 100, came to Lewiston, Maine for his 80 year reunion at Bates College. He was the only one left.
When he was born, the first Roosevelt was president. His oldest child is 73.
Asked by the AP what he credits for his many years, Webber said, “If a woman asks me that, I say I had a good wife. She’s been gone since 1984.”
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