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applegrove

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7. I've not lived abroad. I've stayed in Paris for a week. That culture is pretty hard to top.

Reply to bamagal62 (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:04 PM

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Spent a week in Venezuela (homemade shrines everywhere along the highways where people died in car accidents - yikes. Gas was cheap). Been to Boston twice, Florida, Cape Cod and Washington, DC. I liked everywhere I went but Ottawa is my home.

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Oh that sounds grand. I was too wimpy to go to India applegrove Yesterday #9