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Old Apr 29, 2019, 5:08 am
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TaiwanIndependence
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: BOS, TPE
Programs: AA
Posts: 68
Absolutely incredible. And looking at the responses from the oligarchs of FT.......SFO777, john rain, eight black, ironmanjt....WOW

Reminds me of the trip I did with my father and mother in 2004. I saw that he had maybe a year left on this planet. My wife and I were in Paris and I
arranged for my best friend to escort them from BOS to CDG. My dear friend Tom has a wicked sense of humor and introduced my mother to the check-in
agent as Mrs. Osama Bin Laden. The agent had no sense of humor and immediately called the state police. Luckily, my mother was chums with the director
of Massport, the owner of the airport, and a couple of phone calls later the state police were escorting my parents and bad Tom through security.

My father had studied at the Sorbonne and we had lived in Paris as my father was a diplomat in the U. S. Foreign Service. My father, Tom, and I spent
several days touring my father's old haunts and finished the trip at Sacre Coeur. I will never forget kneeling next to my father and praying to the Almighty at
this hill-top cathedral. I keep a photo of the three of us, in tears, on the steps of Sacre Coeur, on my desk.

A year later he died.

I noticed the Hobart shirt. My wife and I are U of R grads and have a cottage on Seneca Lake in Hector.
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