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Off To Chi-Town

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I’ll be at Northwestern tonight. Will catch up more from the road. I hope your Memorial Day weekend was grand. I spent most of mine in bed with a miserable cold. However, I did take my daughter to the Memorial Day parade in DC. I hadn’t been in at least 15-20 years. Much quainter than I remembered.

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