Merry Christmas to all of our friends and acquaintances around the world. Thinking of Matka Canyon waiters and cats and Weisbaden family and Mel's Christmas baby, the wonderful folks in Turkey like Tolga and Dr. Hassan and Pala and Hatice, Neuzet and Yussuf and our friends in Denizli, Slovenian teachers and pianists, Slovakian otters, Poland and 49er fans in Berlin. Vietnam buddies, Moroccan terrace partiers, Tunisian apartment keepers and Stuttgart friends. Chicagoans and Texans and Chloe and everyone near and dear. Merry Christmas to Mom and Dave and April and Raquel. God Bless you all. We arrived back in Florida on November 8th. We left Florida on November 18th. A rolling stone...... Our cat seemed happy to see us but my physicians reacted with professionally honed ambivalence when I tottered into their examining rooms. Nine days
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