history
Not the town, but the hospital she was born in
What is Winchester Hospital?
The skin of this fruit makes her mouth itchy but she refuses to accept it as an allergy because it’s not even that bad and she’s no wimp
What are apples?
A song she sang at 3 NESBA shows at the end of a colorguard competition
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
Her favorite day, her anniversary with her amazing boyfriend
What is March 9th?
Her middle name
What is Rose?
The address to her childhood home where she lived until 2014 - don’t let the sign of this side street fool you, that’s the road that connected to the main road
What is 13 Oxford Road?
The number of dinners her mother claimed to be able to cook as a child
What is 5?
“I can only cook 5 things!”
The first song she remembers sending you a video of on the bass in her college apartment
What is Shangri La?
The first international city we ever stepped foot in together, albeit brief
Where is Montreal?
A rhyming nickname suffix that her mom used for all of her kids especially with C names
What is Cuddlebuckets?
The family dog, a border collie-pointer mix with a fear for men, basements, and baseball equipment
Who was Lucky?
The life-breathing soup she got in Cancún at that off-resort restaurant
What is Minestrone?
This song, a famous Italian operetta, inspired the 2018 Billerica Winter Guard production, including a big honking moon floor piece - that thing wAs bad when it wasn’t folded right
What is Mal d’Luna?
The number of countries we’ve been to together if you count flight layovers
What is 5?
(Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Mexico)
The name my mother wanted to name me very badly but it was unisex so it was vetoed (I liked it way better than my own name as a kid so I really held onto it)
What is Jamie?
Her grandfather (Grampy)’s nickname, which seemed to have no correlation with his real name, Francis Morelli
Who was Eddie?
The best part of her favorite cake, that she gets for her birthday every year
What are Carvel Crumblies/Crunchies?
She sang this song at the 5th grade talent show - and did sign language so she didn’t look awkward just standing there
What is “Imagine”?
She takes one of these every day, and I as the guesser am very grateful because it means we are less likely to get teen pregnant and it messes up your hormones and may increase the risk of some physical ailments and is annoying to pick up from the store
What is a birth control pill?
Her true childhood nickname that her siblings still use - and yes, it was before that hit movie
What is Boo?
Her elementary school - must pronounce with a strict Boston accent
What is the Hajjar?
If she had to pick a favorite fruit, even though she likes them all, it would probably be this one - the same answer she’s had for 20 years
What is watermelon?
The standard tuning for a lever harp, after you’ve tuned it in C with no levers engaged
What is E flat?
When she was 18, she got this many piercings in 1 day at a Claire’s - extra credit if you know how many total piercings she has ever gotten on her body
What is 6?
(Extra credit: What is 9?)
69 😎
A nickname or title created by the younger children of the colorguard team - origins still unclear
What is Papa?