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This afternoon Nancy and I had back-to-back doctor appointments. The purpose of the appointments were to develop a relationship with a Marshall doctor and subject ourselves to a preliminary physical. As we walked toward our doctor's office we past another doctor's office. Must have been 20 people in the waiting room. First thought to come to mind was, "Why can't a doctor ever keep an

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Speak Out If cleanliness is next to godliness, then Marshall must be the devil’s playground. If the City government isn’t going to clean up Marshall, will the Marshall churches lead a clean up drive of Marshall? Lets pickup the trash in our streets and cut and rake our yards. Tom Allin(Please use my name)

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Movies Nancy and I are readers and movie watchers. We have a television that is not connected to a cable or satellite service – it is our movie machine. After watching a movie the other night I started thinking about my favorite movies. It took only a few minutes to come up with 26 best movies. Next I thought I should add my favorite “all time worse movie”. Then while researching I added

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Diet, Exercise, and Me I knew it was time to lose some weight when I reached the Jell-O like mass of 183 pounds. How did this extra eleven pounds from somewhere out there in the universe find me? At this point in my life the added weight is concentrated in the middle of my body and under my chin. Although this physique allows me to fit comfortably into the Marshall social life, it does

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Marshall News Messanger (newspaper) Speak Out! Marshall is working hard to become a center for the arts. Art is about beauty. Therefore in order for Marshall to be a center for the arts it must become beautiful. The city of Marshall needs everyone’s help to become a beautiful city of the arts. Business and churches must landscape their barren ugly parking lots. Rental owners must

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Dear Grant, Just read your email to your mom. At first I was going to buy “The Skeptical Environment” because I do not believe you can make changes to how the world operates without understanding and taking into consideration the economic consequences – good or bad. However, after reading your review I am no longer inclined to read this book. Based on your review this book is a different

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The American Front Porch What characterizes small town America more than its front porches? Many of us live in large cities or in our case, just moved from. These cities are vibrant and exciting; however, they can also be anonymous and isolating. How many of you can remember speaking to a neighbor in the last week or month or even the last year? Moreover, those who spoke to a neighbor,

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August 4, 2004 Dear Mom and Dad, Today Nancy wanted to move rugs and furniture. At some point in our furniture rearrangement effort, I began to think to myself that we needed to include the variable of our friends’ bad hearing into the furniture placement jigsaw. Martha’s good ear is her left ear, Diane and Mary Holbart have hearing aides in each ear, several other friends have one hearing

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To: The Marshall News Messenger RE: SPEAK OUT! Now that the “red herring” that the Ramsar Treaty/UNESCO/United Nations is not and does not want to take over Caddo Lake has been exposed, isn’t it great to know Caddo Lake is globally recognized as being an equal to these other well known Ramsar designated wetland sites: Everglades National Park, Okefenokee Nat’l Wildlife

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July 12, 2004 Dear CeCe, Where am I? I am living in Marshall, TX. After five months of traveling in South America and with an occasional discussion on “what are we going to do when we return the US of A”, spending a month in Denver and Tucson with people asking, “When are you going to get a job?”, spending another couple of months in Marshall on family business – we decided to buy a

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Hi to everyone, A quick update on where we are and where we are going. Sitting at the Tropical Hotel in Manaus -- no we did not stay here but are meeting our boat which will take us up the Amazon River. This is a 4 day and 3 night trip. We left Rio a week ago last Sunday. Rio is a great place. As far as places to live I put Rio right up there with my dream of Paris, France -- I added

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Writing from San Pedro de Atacama, Argentina. Nice, warm and dry. Dry is the understatement. San Pedro has never had any recorded rain fall. The rainy season in this desert area is Jan. through April. In a good year they get 4 rain days, each rain lasting 20 to 90 minutes. This is a dry year, only 2 rain days so far. What a very interesting and strange place. At times and in certain

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We are in our second night in Ushuaia, Argentina -- the end of the world. As with all of Patagonia the scenery is wonderful. Even the airport is great. The plane approaches from out over the Beagle Channel so that you are flying over very blue water with the small city of Ushuaia in the foreground and in the background surrounding the city are blue mountains each capped in white snow. And

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If you are planning a vacation to somewhere outside the U.S.A., investigate Argentina. A wonderful county and very inexpensive. Of course, my thoughts are slightly skewed because we just spent 10 weeks in Ecuador and Peru. These are wonderful places to visit but are difficult to travel. I understand why we met almost no Americans that were not on tours, Americans are not use to the

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One of our readers, read their first chapter of our travels a week ago. They sent back an email saying that they read it after attending a wedding and having several or maybe more than several drinks and found our travel chapter interesting. Based on this email, I recommend all readers -- except my nieces and nephews, indulge in their favorite pleasure before reading this latest chapter in our

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For the last week we have heard rumors that there is trouble in Bolivia. First I heard from a travel agency in Arequepa that our plan to take a bus from Puno, Peru to Bolivia might not be possible, demonstrations in Bolivia protesting fuel. Then on our bus trip to Colca Canyon from Arequipa we met a 60 year old lady from CA who had just completed a two year assignment with the Peace Corp in a

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It is Sunday and a day of rest for us. There does not seem to be enough time to write about everything we do or see. And I am sure you all are happy that I do not have the time to write! After the Galapagos we went in the opposite direction. From ocean and islands to cloud forest and jungle. Our trip to Manu was incredible. Grant, thank you for telling me about Manu three years ago.

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Hola todas mis amigos, > >Last Friday evening after a pleasant dinner in a nice restaurant we >decided to walk home. During the evening we had heard fireworks and >saw several fireworks in the sky. But as we approached the Central >Square we heard more and saw many people. When we were a block away >we looked down a side street and saw a fiesta in progress in front >of one of the churches.

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Hola amigos y familia, Thursday evenings appear to be our "night out". Last night we took our two professores: Luis and Christabol out to dinner. They chose the resturant and did the ordering. The meal was great! Started off with what I will call appetizers: white cheese and a large bowl of beans. The cheese was the typical cheese served with breakfast and dinner -- almost tasteless but

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Most of the last 2 and half weeks have been spent where there is no computer much less an internet. Last night we set the alarm for 5:15 am and just as luck would have it, it went off at 5:15 this morning. I removed the mosquito net from around the bed, lit the candles -- the generator only is used for a couple of hours in the evening, walk down the hall to the entry and put on my mud boots,

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We arrived back in Quito at about 6:30 this morning and were back a sleep by 7:00 in our hotel. We got up and have been "walking" errands since about 11:00. Over to the bus station for two tickets to Cuenca - bus leaves at 6:00 am tomorrow and is a 10+ hour trip and each ticket was $12 so the trip will cost us $24, to the laundry -- $4 for 10 pounds of clothes, buy some water, a couple of meals

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Hola, I am going to use your email rather than the family but you have to print my emails out let everyone read them and give to Mom and Dad to read. Also, if you haven´t please print out my other emails and let Mom and Day read. We are at an internet cafe writing emails while our laundry is being done next door. Tonight at 8:00 pm we meet with our Espanol teachers para La Selva, take a

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A quick note to let you all know we are alive and well in Quito. Please respond to this email with a simple, "Received your email" so that I know I have the correct addresses. And of course if you want to send more to us by way of my email or your mom´s please do. Esponal is muy duro para me pero sus madre is muy good con Esponal. Our first week has been intense: breakfast at 7:30 with

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Dear Allins, I am sending this to all the Allin email addresses I have listed. Who ever gets this email please pass it on to the family. Quito is a very pleasant city. We have explored new town and spent a half day in old town. Last night we left our hotel for our family. The Moya family is wonderful. Amparo (wife-mother) knows a little English -- more English than I know Spanish --

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Dear everyone, We have been On the Road for the last two and half weeks -- so many sights, sounds, occasionally smells, and just fun experiences! Fun is the wrong adjective for The Hospital, how about interesting but not to be repeated. We did the Galapagos Islands with a stop on both sides of this trip in Guayaquil and Manu Reserve in Peru. We arrived for our 8:00 Spanish lesson in

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