"Aunty," Jem spoke up, "Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't." -To Kill a Mockingbird
skookum: colloquial adj. fr. Straits Salish. In the same instant, good, fitting, proper, and beautiful, wonderful to behold or perceive. i.e. freshly caught coho, the smell of sawn cedar, and a february sunset over the Gulf Islands.
nice Camerama! So skookum = peak. Also a sasquatch eh, cool.
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