[Magdalen] Duncan to retire

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Your mother had a full beard?

Jim Handsfield 
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> On Nov 10, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 11/10/2015 1:07:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> As we  age, I have read, we become more and more like  ourselves.>>>>>>>
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> Or our parents.
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> I look like my mother with a full beard.
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> And on the subject of mothers, mine was the family matriarch.  As  she
> got into extreme old age (she died at 98), her many opinions tended  to
> come out unmodified and softened by other points of view.  Her  opinions
> were the whole story and nothing else counted.  Luckily, such was  her
> standing and affection within the family that her strong, often wrong
> opinions were ignored, and her remaining endearing qualities  remembered.
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> That we all could have families like that.
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> 
> David Strang.
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