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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: Stockholm Syndrome in Tientsin
Chapter Three Stockholm Syndrome In Tientsin Part One Something we all noticed was Comrade Sung was becoming much less distasteful ...
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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair (Part 3)
Chapter Two The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair Part Three One day when we arrived back at the hotel for ...
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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair (Part 2)
Chapter Two The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair Part Two The young language students were quite delightful. It was a ...
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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair
Chapter Two The First Annual Tientsin Carpet Fair Part One The pretentious big shiny red and gold invitation Rosa’s influence ...
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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: And So the Adventure Begins (Part 2)
Chapter One AND SO THE ADVENTURE BEGINS Part Two My flight to China took over 24 hours. We ran into ...
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A Front Row Seat for the Cultural Revolution: And So the Adventure Begins
Since Fluffy took off to save his turkey friends from Thanksgiving disaster there haven't been any health reports and queries ...
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But I Didn’t Know Gable
Hello to all! Fluffy here saying goodbye for now. Mom's doing so much better. That leg she couldn't move up ...
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To Hell & Back
Well dear friends Fluffy is finally back. Thanks to all of you for the notes and cards and visits and ...
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Fluffy Here: An Overdue Report
Fluffy here with overdue report,.... Things have been pretty hectic the past ten days. So much confusion with all the ...
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Fluffy Here: Recovery Progress Report!
Sorry I've been out of touch but I've had my hands full. We came home a week and half ago ...
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Fluffy Here: We’re Home!
Wow have I been in trouble since you last heard from me. Big trouble!  But I got bored with all ...
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Fluffy Here!
Met doctor who operated on mommy. Dr. Richard Kahmann. He's a cool guy. He flies just like me. Well he ...
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I Got More Than I Asked For!
In casual conversation I commented, "Everyone seems to have had a tour of Santa Barbara's fabulous new Cottage Hospital except ...
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Entertaining Can be Entertaining for the Hosts Too
Searching through the wall of cookbooks for a particular book I came upon a Clarkston Potter book by the late ...
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Ollie Carey was a Grand Old Dame but Wouldn’t Have Wanted to be a Grande Dame
I certainly moved to Santa Barbara just in time -- just in time for some fabulous people who will never ...
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Leopards Aren’t Just In The Jungle Any More
This beautiful short video of Cartier Jeweler's new ad brought back many memories for me. As Cartier's Leopard tore majestically ...
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I Fell For Sneakers Before Models Were Falling In Stilettos
Since you are still getting daily news about Paris collections Kathleen and I decided to post the advance written Sunday ...
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Sometimes a Book Really Starts One Thinking
While this title fits me, many people I know read nothing but classics or books destined to be classics or ...
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The Fabulous New Home Everyone Wants To See
And I got to see it twice in one week! The large spread about this home in the new Harper's ...
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In a Lovely Old Fashioned Way
When I moved to Santa Barbara in 1963 I was honored to be befriended by two of the most wonderful ...
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