Our Daughter Lina

As promised, here’s the abridged Lina Day 2007 video.

Lina Day Video (VHS quality: try this one first) Lina Day Video (smaller: online “tube” quality)

Both are 6:29 in length (don’t worry, that’s minutes and seconds), which is 33 minutes shorter than the “parents” version on DVD.

Update: Here’s a Mac-compatible version (may require download).

Enjoy!

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To [...]

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Incidently, as I [...]