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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What if… those news stories of the Italians breaking into song is all fake? What if they are all so terrified they won’t even go out on the balcony? I hope it is real.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Speaking of real: my father in law is 80. He has been shopping at the same grocery store for 30 years. He would try to get in the line of a particular checker. Today she stopped by his house with a box of groceries that are the things he always buys there. The store manager picked up the tab. She asked if there was anything else he needed; if so she would bring it by, for she already hasta go in there every day anyway, so it is no additional risk. It isn’t a big city, but not really a small one either: Spokane Washington.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do hope the Italian singers on the balcony is true.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emergencies bring out both the inhumanity and the humanity in humans.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>