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At any rate, I'm all decked out in my red white and blue and send big kisses south of the border!!

I have just run out into my yard and into the path of those kisses. (BE STILL MY HEART!) Old guys, like me, can't take excitement like this.

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Well, look at it this way. That's one week of the year when you can blast your speakers, and no one will care, since they'll be inaudible over the explosions.

LOL! Now why didn't I think of that!

Jack

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton