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Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
30 seconds
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24 hours
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1 minute
Back for another comment. Been working my way thru a number of your podcasts and have found them very worth my time. Thanks for your effort, knowledge and creativity. It is the “Heroes” section that drives me to comment. Had previously commented on Doug Jones. But this one on Dora brought back vivid memories of my invite to her house, one wind and snow-swept late afternoon while I was a LVSC Jan term student. That would have been ’77 or ’78. I was able to see everything in the house in my mind’s eye before you described it. We were struck by the same features – the round house, the glass walls, the walk-in fireplace, the waterfall, the stairs. Unfortunately my introduction to her was very brief, one evening, one dinner. But memorable, none the less.
Thanks so much. That’s very encouraging. I wanted to capture the magic of the place and the woman. She was something else.