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Gloria Bourgoin (Santarpia)
Thank you for bringing that up Donna! The Pelletier Brothers are actually my 1st cousins (my mother's sister) & I grew up closely to all of them in Daigle. We spent many a Sundays having tractor pulls in their driveway, snowmobiling or whatever or I spending time with the 1 girl out of 9 children (she was # 7) up in her room. Only 1 of the boys didn't follow his father's footsteps & is living in Ft. Kent doing his own thing. My cousin,Jean, lives in Virginia Beach with her Navy husband & 2 kids & the furthest away from the clan. Can you imagine 8 boys??? My aunt was harried...I remember, but the logging company that my uncle started (unfortunately died of a heart attack just a few years ago at age 69) really was their whole life. My uncle was an extremely loving, sweet man. He wore a smile constantly. Imagine his legacy being carried on like this on national t.v. Love seeing my cousins on there talking just the way I remember them (we all drifted apart and my mom keeps me filled in since she is close to my aunt & some of the kids) especially on the Discovery Channel. Wow! My family will celebrate their 2nd family reunion on August 1 of this year and I'm sure most or all of the Pelletier loggers will be there as the last one in 1989. We'll have lots to talk about...how can we not?? Oh & that accent..let by gones be by gones, I can do without.:)
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