Eighty-three days sounds like a long time but it's less than three months until we leave for Cameroon, West Africa. There are tons of details to take care of before then: renewing passports, applying for visas, getting appropriate immunizations and last, but not least by any measure, packing. This is the story: As a 20 year old college graduate, I went to Cameroon to teach in 1980. I taught lit, math, and typing at Saker Baptist College. While there I met a young man (dressed in an orange polyester western leisure suit, with white cowboy boots, and sporting a Jackson Five 'fro -- but that's another story) who impressed me. After my two year tour, I returned to the US. Two years later, Joseph came to the US to finish his studies. We had kept in
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