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The Sunday Breakfast is truly a nice opportunity to meet the guests. It's arranged by Anita Ellis and the proceeds go to the James W. Ellis Foundation, created in honor of her father. The Foundation awards scholarships to students of Hofstra University with cancer or who have an immediate relative with cancer. Creation Entertainment graciously handles the tickets and advertising. After a warmup where Anita addresses the crowd and makes them do silly things like sing, there is the breakfast proper. About then the guests arrive and eat. Afterwards the guests go from table to table, spending a few minutes at each table to talk to the people and take pictures. It's very intimate and quite nicer than the actual convention. After the breakfast, the second day of the convention featured Ebonie Smith and William Gregory Lee. Click on a picture for a 640 x 480 blowup. Click on [Full] to see the 2048 x 1536 original. Each QuickTime movie is 320 x 240, 15 frames per second, no sound. A shot of the breakfast room. My table is on the left in the foreground. We got there late so it was the last table with empty seats. Anita Ellis is in the orange shirt in the middle of the picture. Sitting at my table, opposite from the camera, you can see Sarah Packard getting something from her bag. [Full] This shot is here because it's one of the clearer shots with Christine Jarosz, in the white shirt and cap sitting to Sarah's right. [Full] Willa O'Neill sitting at our table. She didn't get much sleep the night before. But I think she's always that cheerful. [Full] Another shot of Willa. I was trying to get a good shot of Christine, but I was relunctant to get up, move over and take a better shot, so I hurried and it came out a bit blurry. [Full]

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