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February 4th 2012

Published: February 4th 2012

WOW! Flying Emirates Airlines took me back to the way that airlines were decades ago: metal flatware, menu choise, excellent food, coide of beverages including white or red wine (no charge and very quietly, a couple of extra bottles to take with us)...Probably 100+ movies, TV shows, news, etc. that we could individually select. I wateched an epidsode of Mad Men and saw again BLAZING SADDLES. I had started THE HELP but decided to keep what I read in my memory, not the move. Kinda interesting to Mel Brooks' take on integration in the late 1960s with how the The Help is portrayed in memory 30 years later.

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Marie Spodek

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Ten days after I graduated from Augustana College (1965), I was in Kashmir, India, in a houseboat...preparing to teach English as a second language at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. What a long ways from a one-room country school house in South Dakota. Less than a year later, I traveled from Bombay to Dar es Salaam on a third-class boat to visit with many of my students who had traveled from East Africa to Ahmedabad for their education... In 2006, we headed to East Africa to visit my daughter in Uganda, the country I couldn't visit in 1966 because of a revolution/revolt/d... full info

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