Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/17

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Subject: [Leica] Old Friensd
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:55:21 -0500
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A very nice portrait to go with a very nice warm your heart story.

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
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> On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> At my age, life sometimes seems really weird. When I was a graduate 
> student, circa 1944, my wife and I lived in student housing consisting of 
> a two-room oil-heated shack. We adopted a kitten that we found on our 
> windowsill. Across from us lived another couple, the man a law student. We 
> got to know them when we accused them (jokingly) of stealing our cat, who 
> was spending as much time in their house as in ours.
> 
> We eventually became close friends, staying in touch during the years, and 
> frequently traveling from where we were living (Washington DC, Chicago) to 
> their home in West Virginia and later near Indianapolis.
> 
> Eventually, they had a child. We saw him as a little kid, but missed his 
> adolescence and early adulthood because of our eight-year stay in England.
> 
> Well, the guy in the picture is the little kid, who is now an 
> emergency-room physician and who has two daughters in medical school. The 
> lady is, of course, his wife.  His mother is still alive; his father died 
> a few years ago. He, his wife, and his mother visited us for a few days 
> last week.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003942-2_001.jpg.html 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003942-2_001.jpg.html>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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