To my daughter, the blogger Esclaw, as we plan to visit her in Sydney during December... Where, you asked, would Mom and I go in Australia if you, Les and Abby were not in the picture. Hypothetical questions of this sort are tough to answer. If you were not in the picture, we would go to Greece. But if you were totally out of the picture, had you never been born, we'd probably not have had the desire to visit Greece kindled in us by our daughter, who you'll recall in our hypothesis, does not exist. All of the branching what-ifs inevitably lead to hypothetical dead ends. Who knows, if you were out of the picture, we might just decide to go to Hoboken. So let's leave you in the picture and try again. The picture
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