Now, if you didn't win the 4th grade "Roman Numeral" contest in Mrs. Riley's class, you may be struggling to figure out the big number that titles this post (of course I am only surmising here, I wouldn't really know about people like you). Anyway, the number is 2776 and it is relevant today.
Indeed, they say that on April 21, 753 BC, an enterprising fellow named "Romulus" decided that being raised by a wolf was a cool background story but it wasn't how he wanted to be remembered, so he founded a city, named it "Rome", and went about his merry way. Now, 2776 years later, the city still stands, and its residents celebrate the date of its founding.
And speaking of ancient history, the photo of the Fortier clan above, which seems to me like I took a couple of months ago, is actually about nine years old (that's IX years for the rest of you in Mrs. Riley's class). I snapped this along the banks of the Tevere river, right in the heart of Rome, back when the city was only MMDCCLXVII years old.
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