Ruth,

I like your way of seeing this, and my countless other nonadventures, as lucky escapes.  That's a much more positive attitude than my view of them all as missed opportunities.

The alternatives to what John LeCarre (I think) described as the solitary habits of one's youth might indeed have caused things worse than blindness.  

Ralph



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From: Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:05 am
Subject: Re: [BP] Mark Rudd

Ralph,  Probably you had a lucky escape.  Count your blessings.  Oh, we do
have some leftover hippies maybe they heard of him, I'll ask around.  Ruth



At 9:29 AM -0400 4/27/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:


Dummerston might be hard, but the leftover hippies (Ben and Jerry!) and
wannabe hippies who study obscure ancient political history in Middlebury
or Burlington ought to know of him.  Seems to me there was some girl I met
at ASU and wanted to date (but who was uninterested in me) who claimed to
be his sister or cousin.  Or maybe she met him once on a bus.
Ralph
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