<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/26 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span>Part of having it made is knowing when you have it made. You and I are lucky in so many ways, such as being born late enough in history to have cool stuff like computers and orbiting telescopes to learn about marvelous stuff like this:</span></font></div>
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<div>Spike, I agree that we are very lucky. We have advantages the greatest ancient or medieval king did not have within his power! lol And as an extremely bright and educated fellow, you are among the luckiest. : )</div>
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<div>But your son and my nephew, and especially their future children..., *they* will be the EXTREMELY lucky ones. <img style="MARGIN: 0px 0.2ex; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" src="cid:B60@goomoji.gmail" width="15" height="15" goomoji="B60"> </div>
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<div>"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate." </div>
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<div>I removed the depressing final words to the quote...</div>
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<div>John</div></div><br>