Rich,
Gosh, it's hard to know just how to respond to this very heartfelt post. Even as I found similarities in what you described, I was struck by how unique your life and descriptions of it were. I guess it's that dichotomy that helps us understand each other and still feel that what makes up our lives is both special and one-of-a-kind. Thanks for describing your Christmas, but more so, the thread of life that ties us together.
I used to tell my students that I could not give a better compliment than to say I learned something from them. I learned something from your post -- about you...and myself. Thank you.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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