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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:40:19 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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- > The only 'cold' part of RI I remember was being near the water on 'bake day.
- > In the main, I remember sweating like a pig.
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- I don't remember even a hint of hot weather in RI. I remember being cold
- several times -- bake day and one night after a play stand out in my
- memory. I think the time after the play was when I was back in Providence
- about a week after the bake.
-
- > And don't forget the bookstores! There's a good Japanese bookstore and also
- > that bookstore that is the largest in the US--I can't remember the name, but
- > others mentioned it.
-
- If we're talking about bookstores, why not have it in New York or London?
-
- > Besides, while NC is East Coast, it's hardly a day's drive from Boston/NYC/
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- Betcha, betcha it is. I ate lunch with Ken on my return last summer and
- was in Virginia before dark. Lunch->twilight = 1/2 a day by my calculations.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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