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A Year Ago Today

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June 16th 2007
It's been a year since the frantic readying quite abruptly became the incredible doing. Since I had this surreal feeling that I was stepping off of a very high cliff and hanging in the air on nothing. Not quite trusting it to be real, but moving along anyway. That's how it felt one year ago today waiting at the airport. All the preparations were made and momentum carried us on. Carried us through ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more