We sadly left NZ for our long expected reunion with Peter Stark. You may have remembered that Peter was an Australian exchange student who lived with Ginny’s family in Appleton when she was 11. We last saw Peter in 1996 when he came to Wisconsin for his 30th high school reunion and of course we threatened to come visit. Well, part of this trip was to carry out that perfunctory comment that you say when guests depart. Peter had a privileged upbringing in Sydney, but we suspected he chose a different lifestyle since he told us he was a weed sprayer in Sofala. We Googled “ Sofala” and learned it was an old Gold Mining town that at its height in the 1890’s was over 50,000 strong that had shrunk to only 40 citizens - and
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