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          <body><![CDATA[That story requires me to imbibe more opiated Raki than I currently have access to.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[It took a while, but after a month of driving loaners I've got a car of my own again.  Thank you all for your kind words and support.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[An odd sort of announcement:  My likeness is being used as a model for Ishmael in a Moby Dick themed painting.  (The artist is using a picture of myself around the age of 22).<br/><br/>When the artist read about Ishmael's desire to knock the hats off of everyone he met on the street, just on general principals, he immediately thought of me.  ha!]]></body>
        
    
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