>That was also back, I am told, at a
> time in my life when I had an imaginary friend that I talked to all day
> long.

Yes, at this time in Ken's life he only has occasional sidebar conversations with the imaginary friend...
 
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> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:46:32 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Native ways....NOT
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> >> True family story. Natives on the Allegheny Reservation in Western NY
> >> were relocated for the Kinzua Dam. New houses were built for them
> >> with electric power, and heat, that I understand was to be free of
> >> charge.
> > We have friends at that rez.
> Rudy,
>
> I know we have spoken of this before but I will add to it. My stepfather
> (Jim & Pam's father) was born at Salamanca. Up until he was about 12 or
> so as he had blue eyes he was groomed as a Shaman. Our great
> grandmother, as far as I can garnish from a family history that seems to
> want to bury itself, was Seneca. Somewhere along in there our
> Grandfather went from pool shark to spokesman for Jesus. His father was
> a fireman on the railroad... when it was steam. Salamanca was an
> important juncture for the railroads and the cradle of the oil industry.
> Home of Standard Oil until the refinery burned down... talk about black
> smoke. Reason enough for the locals to think it was White Man's air.
> Thus towns like Wellsville. There is also in there a connection on
> Grandmother's side of Scottish stonemasons, brothers who worked on the
> Erie Canal and then as they got to Western, NY, and the end of the
> project, went into the local furniture business and somehow one branch
> ended up in ship hardware in Cleveland. As I related in-family recently
> I remember going to a family reunion in Wellsville more than 50 years
> ago that was held in a large park. There was the mysterious family from
> Cleveland that showed up in a large black car. Never saw them again.
> Then again, I also mentioned that I hope they were not Family in Black
> and that I need regressive hypnosis to uncover my true memories of a
> Shirley McLaine kinda past life. That was also back, I am told, at a
> time in my life when I had an imaginary friend that I talked to all day
> long.
>
> Not sure if it was the last treaty broken... my way of looking at it is
> they are broken anew every day.
>
> ][<
>
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