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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking at the recent weather, and remembering this
year's Autumn Melees, I thought I would submit something written there. The
Chronicler hereby has my permission to use this or not, as he/she pleases,
whenever it suits them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Value for Value </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A stormy day,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cold, wet and blustery.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Memories of being "rained out".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Memories of times I refused to be "rained
out".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And amusement with myself at how foolish that often
was.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And yet, and yet...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The friends, my loved and cherished
family.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The times we've shared, and how much poorer I would
be had I missed them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would I trade even one of those cold nasty days to
be warm and dry at home?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not in a million years.</FONT></DIV>
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In Joyful
Service,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
Iain MacCrimmon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the
vote."<BR>
Benjamin Franklin, 1759</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>