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High life

High life

18 August 2016

1:00 PM

18 August 2016

1:00 PM

An item in an American newspaper had me thinking of my father all last week. Old dad died 27 years ago, which means I have outlived him in age, the only thing I have ever outdone him in. His achievements were too many to list here, and everything I have I owe to him.

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