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Too bad those "fun days" had already vanished by the time of the Anaheim trainings. I think I missed the last meeting one time to get a start on the road home and had to consider that I might not get to go the next time because of it. Of course, I was headstrong enough not to worry about it.

I'm convinced that it was the people that made the good side what it was at any time. And it was much easier in the early days. Today, I have had to bite my tongue on occasion to not ask my Dad what, besides 36 years of familiarity, keeps him in the LC. I'm not sure he really wants to think about an answer to that question.

But it is the people, I'm sure of it. I must admit that even the "horror" of the events at my mother's funeral could not diminish the delight in seeing some of those people for the first time in over 20 years (in some cases even longer). I just wish that there was not the baggage that came with it.