martedì 10 giugno 2008
sabato 1 marzo 2008
Project Global Cooling, by David Darnell
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March 2, 2008
Jamsheed Hakiim
Final entry: Project Global Cooling
When this project was born, the Shah was still in power and Iran was destined to become the
model of the Mideast. My family was comprised of many engineers, geologists and petroleum geophysicists. They were mainly educated in Moscow, Beirut and even one young man, Dafya, went to Loyola College in Baltimore. He was the visionary and guiding light of the project, working diligently and pulling many strings to get to the U.S. to go to school. Dafya also, during this time, became a believer in Jesus and was baptized at the school chapel. Also while he was in Baltimore he discovered the charms of American women, one of them being my mother. Actually, they dated, fell in love and were married by a Jesuit priest. He was called back to Iran, under the pretenses of having an ill relative. When he arrived he was whisked away to one of the research compounds in Bushehr. He was working on his doctorate in computer aided seismography and physics.
After the Shah died, the Ayatollahs began pulling the veil over Iran and shutting them off completely from outside influences. They began using great oil-wealth to finance clandestine Islamic extremist goals all around the globe. Students abroad were coerced back into Iran, by any means necessary. What the world didn’t and still doesn’t know is that the shallow oilfields are not only close to the surface but the reservoirs are shallow and inconsistent themselves. The oil wealth is an illusion. Subsurface fault lines have caused the oil to pool beneath mountains of jack-knifed granite at depths of 5000 to 7000 feet. The great pools are out of easy reach. The Ayatollahs have turned away all of the major oil companies, who have the technology and capability to recover it. Many of my family have been locked –up for years in various compounds by the regime to try and find an answer to the dilemma. Maybe you have read, Japan is very interested in the Azaadegan region, pouring yens and technology here to try and find the oil.
With the international dialog about Iran’s nuclear reactor development, the perceived reason is for them to build a bomb. However, in reality they need the reactors to generate electricity. My dad, Dafya Jamsheed, has become a top developer of the Iran Project Global Cooling. His ticket back to the U. S. is tied to his ability to bring to fruition a nuclear power plant.
I recently received an e-mail which read: Dear Jamsheed, Our chance to meet in Baltimore seems to be not much of a chance at all, unless we are able to procure more funds and re-new our passports. The exit fees from Iran have become quite high and unreasonable. If you could open a bank account in your grandfather’s name, you know Grand-pa Raymond (Raymond had become our code word for uranium) However, it would be best if you took the funds from the Jamsheed Trust fund account and pay the penalty for early withdrawal and use the Visa Card in the safe deposit box. The card is in the trustees name and you have the security code. (We don’t have a trust fund, safe deposit or trustee). Once you have the card and funds, put the card back in the safe deposit. Contact your cousins in Fort Murray, Canada right outside of Alberta. There will be a truck there loaded with some artifacts and booty from Grand-pa Raymond’s warehouse. These are from some of the early days of traveling back and forth to Iran. (I knew from other communications that the researchers needed 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride to finish an important stage of enriching the uranium. Some smugglers had it in Canada.) Go and purchase what you need and bring the truck to Baltimore. Check with my Physics professor, he now owns La Dolce Vita Amusement Center near the Harbor Freeway. He will arrange a buyer for the rugs and artifacts. (La Dolce Vita was a hang-out for gamblers and nefarious characters). That should furnish enough funds to take care of my exit papers.”
I was able to make myself inconspicuous around the various registers in Nordstrom’s at Towson Town Center. I waited and shopped like all mall rats do, milling around the areas where women shop. My opportunity arose when you checked out with a leather jacket and gloves. I was behind you talking on my cell phone as you took out your card to pay and I snapped a photo of your card. Actually, I was shooting a video of your transaction. Your bad luck and my enabling providence to be a thief was that you require ID, so you also took out your drivers’ license, which showed up quite nicely on the video. The fumbling with your purse and wallet gave me time to really focus. I sent everything to my computer which had appraisal district software, state police files and typical rosters of residents and soon I had accessed some files from a transaction for a car loan at Bank of America. An inadvertent disclosure of social security got me in the system.
Your purchase was 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride; my fathers exit from Iran and hopefully someday a peaceful and maybe a little bit Christian Iran.
I stole your identification and card number and carried out this theft in order to help Iran build a nuclear reactor, hopefully for peaceful purposes.
My father made it out of Iran to Singapore and then L.A. So far no bombs have been detected but there seem to be fewer rolling black-outs across Iran.
I threw your ID in Chesapeake Bay tied to a tire tool.
> D2R2's MTC #8 article written March 1, 2008; posted on this site by moderator MooPigWisdom for author.
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March 2, 2008
Jamsheed Hakiim
Final entry: Project Global Cooling
When this project was born, the Shah was still in power and Iran was destined to become the
model of the Mideast. My family was comprised of many engineers, geologists and petroleum geophysicists. They were mainly educated in Moscow, Beirut and even one young man, Dafya, went to Loyola College in Baltimore. He was the visionary and guiding light of the project, working diligently and pulling many strings to get to the U.S. to go to school. Dafya also, during this time, became a believer in Jesus and was baptized at the school chapel. Also while he was in Baltimore he discovered the charms of American women, one of them being my mother. Actually, they dated, fell in love and were married by a Jesuit priest. He was called back to Iran, under the pretenses of having an ill relative. When he arrived he was whisked away to one of the research compounds in Bushehr. He was working on his doctorate in computer aided seismography and physics.After the Shah died, the Ayatollahs began pulling the veil over Iran and shutting them off completely from outside influences. They began using great oil-wealth to finance clandestine Islamic extremist goals all around the globe. Students abroad were coerced back into Iran, by any means necessary. What the world didn’t and still doesn’t know is that the shallow oilfields are not only close to the surface but the reservoirs are shallow and inconsistent themselves. The oil wealth is an illusion. Subsurface fault lines have caused the oil to pool beneath mountains of jack-knifed granite at depths of 5000 to 7000 feet. The great pools are out of easy reach. The Ayatollahs have turned away all of the major oil companies, who have the technology and capability to recover it. Many of my family have been locked –up for years in various compounds by the regime to try and find an answer to the dilemma. Maybe you have read, Japan is very interested in the Azaadegan region, pouring yens and technology here to try and find the oil.
With the international dialog about Iran’s nuclear reactor development, the perceived reason is for them to build a bomb. However, in reality they need the reactors to generate electricity. My dad, Dafya Jamsheed, has become a top developer of the Iran Project Global Cooling. His ticket back to the U. S. is tied to his ability to bring to fruition a nuclear power plant.
I recently received an e-mail which read: Dear Jamsheed, Our chance to meet in Baltimore seems to be not much of a chance at all, unless we are able to procure more funds and re-new our passports. The exit fees from Iran have become quite high and unreasonable. If you could open a bank account in your grandfather’s name, you know Grand-pa Raymond (Raymond had become our code word for uranium) However, it would be best if you took the funds from the Jamsheed Trust fund account and pay the penalty for early withdrawal and use the Visa Card in the safe deposit box. The card is in the trustees name and you have the security code. (We don’t have a trust fund, safe deposit or trustee). Once you have the card and funds, put the card back in the safe deposit. Contact your cousins in Fort Murray, Canada right outside of Alberta. There will be a truck there loaded with some artifacts and booty from Grand-pa Raymond’s warehouse. These are from some of the early days of traveling back and forth to Iran. (I knew from other communications that the researchers needed 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride to finish an important stage of enriching the uranium. Some smugglers had it in Canada.) Go and purchase what you need and bring the truck to Baltimore. Check with my Physics professor, he now owns La Dolce Vita Amusement Center near the Harbor Freeway. He will arrange a buyer for the rugs and artifacts. (La Dolce Vita was a hang-out for gamblers and nefarious characters). That should furnish enough funds to take care of my exit papers.”
I was able to make myself inconspicuous around the various registers in Nordstrom’s at Towson Town Center. I waited and shopped like all mall rats do, milling around the areas where women shop. My opportunity arose when you checked out with a leather jacket and gloves. I was behind you talking on my cell phone as you took out your card to pay and I snapped a photo of your card. Actually, I was shooting a video of your transaction. Your bad luck and my enabling providence to be a thief was that you require ID, so you also took out your drivers’ license, which showed up quite nicely on the video. The fumbling with your purse and wallet gave me time to really focus. I sent everything to my computer which had appraisal district software, state police files and typical rosters of residents and soon I had accessed some files from a transaction for a car loan at Bank of America. An inadvertent disclosure of social security got me in the system.
Your purchase was 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride; my fathers exit from Iran and hopefully someday a peaceful and maybe a little bit Christian Iran.
I stole your identification and card number and carried out this theft in order to help Iran build a nuclear reactor, hopefully for peaceful purposes.
My father made it out of Iran to Singapore and then L.A. So far no bombs have been detected but there seem to be fewer rolling black-outs across Iran.
I threw your ID in Chesapeake Bay tied to a tire tool.
> D2R2's MTC #8 article written March 1, 2008; posted on this site by moderator MooPigWisdom for author.
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venerdì 25 gennaio 2008
mercoledì 23 gennaio 2008
Refer to:
Contact Bob Calvisi at membership@AustinItalians.org for more information retrieved today at http://www.austinitalians.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=4:4
Dear Mr. Calvisi:
Good Morning. What do I need to do to Charter the Bryan/College Station Italian Cultural Association? Will you help me?
Though I am as Texan as it gets my wife Marinell A. Ruggiero Darnell is the first in her family to come to the USA. She is from Foggia, Italia, and we go there to reunite the family every two or three years. Your published reasons to join are exactly why I am writing you this morning.
Reasons You Should Participate in the ICA
1. To meet and be with other Italian Americans to share old country and family traditions.
2. To participate in ongoing social and cultural activities in and around Austin.
3. To share and learn information about "things" Italian.
4. To receive an informative newsletter to let you know about ICA members and planned activities.
5. To participate in the Italian Festival – enjoy great food, great friendship and meet the families of other members.
6. To share the joy of Christmas with other ICA members at the dinner and dance party
We are looking forward to your response. Hopefully, you can guide us in our task.
With warmest regards,
Patrick Darnell
>>MooPigWisdom.blogspot.com
Italianwomanintexas.blogspot.com
Patrick:
I just recently received your email so please use this email to respond: rjcaustin@aol.com
This is going to be short story, but hopefully you will find it informative and useful.
Our group is relatively small (about 80 active members) and we are very independent. There are supposedly about 5,000 Italian-Americans living in the tri-county area, but the most we've ever had in membership is about 135 about 5 years ago, economy slowed down lot of transfers out of state and the membership has never grown. Our by-laws restrict members to a 50-mile area surrounding Austin, otherwise there is little participation.
Here is how our group started in the mid-80s. There were six gentlemen that worked at IBM - all from the NY area - and like many others who transferred to Austin from IBM they were Italian. The gathered on occasion at a local Italian restaurant, owned by an NY Italian, and decided one year to have a weekend get together inviting anyone Italian that they worked with or knew from the restaurant. Everyone contributed food and wine and they had a great time. They did it a second year and it was a great success again. One of the members had been involved with the Sons of Italy Italian Organization in NY, but this organization kept the women separate and with no voting privileges -- that wasn't going to happen in Austin -- so they decided to just start a social group with members paying $8.00 per month into a checking account. The asked all of the people who attended the two Family Festa's to join and they got a total of 14 members (7 couples) our of about 50-60 who had attended the event.
My wife and I were invited to join the ICA in 1986. It was by coincidence that our oldest daughter's best friend in high school was the daughter of one of the original members. We became friends with the restaurant owner and his wife separately, and met some other Italians at the restaurant. To our amazement when these acquaintances attended our daughter's graduation open house they all knew each other, but we were not aware of the ICA connection. So they asked us to join.
Over the next 6 - 7 years we social things together and every October we would have a Family Festa with all the members providing they food and beverages. Our children would attend, parents, close friends -- but they all had to be Italian. We used our dues money to reimburse ourselves for the Family Festa expenses.
We would meet 9 - 10 times per year at someone's house and have a meeting. I thing we debated expanding the club for three years before we took a vote. Once we approved potential expansion of the ICA we decided we needed By-laws so we got a copy from some other organization and created our own - it was still a social club and at lease one member of a couple had to have an Italian blood-line of some sort to become a member. We of course took someone's word they were Italian because we had no way to prove a blood line other than a good family heritage story.
In about 1993, most of the original members began to retire from IBM and they developed other priorities. My wife and I, as the youngest members and the only ones not from NY, decided we loved out Italian friends and if we didn't expand the ICA it would fade away because interest was declining -- the friendships were very strong, but everyone but us working folk were traveling and it was difficult to get events planned.
Much to our surprise in the summer of 1994, there was an article in the local paper about someone trying to get Italians together, then there we a few that started to meet at our friend's restaurant so we visited with both groups in the fall of 1994 and found a lot of common interest. In December 1994 we hosted an open house and invited every Italian we knew or had met. The result, we ended up with about 50 people who all brought food and drink and it was a wonderful atmosphere and we met some new friends with Italian background.
In 1995, after a few more gallons of wine and conversation, it was decided that these new Italians would be invited to join the ICA since we already had an infrastructure. Over the next 3 -4 years we went from 16 members to about 70 members - there is a definite learning curve on how to get members involved and how to find places to meet without a facility. We even developed a Strategic Planning Committee that made suggestions for growth and the needs we would require. That was a great experience to participate an overall other than not finding a way to get "our own ICA home" much of what we planned has been accomplished.
In 2001, we held a widely promoted Festa Italiana! Of which we had about 2,500 attendees. It was a great event, but a lot of hard work and great financial exposure if it was rained out. In 2002, we expanded the Festa to two-day event - partial rain - lots of work and expenses, and we broke even financially at best.
In 2003 we decided to become a non-profit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization in order to expand the club, concentrate on developing some charitable ties, moving more towards a cultural organization, and making it easier to have sponsors deduct any contributions they made to the ICA. We had to change the by-laws, open membership to anyone who wanted to join and reshuffled dues so not all events (social or cultural) were fully funded by the ICA.
In 2004, we did another Festa Italiana! (One day at a new location in downtown Austin. Great location, great entertainment, great food from local Italian restaurants, and lots of beer and wine; but lots of set-up expenses since stages, tents, lighting all needed to be rented. Not promoted heavy enough and with less than 2,000 attendees we lost $2,500. The members eventually decided the financial exposure, the long hours of volunteer work, and the inability of the contracted promoters to deliver what they promised was not worth the effort so we went back to having family gatherings every August.
What we found out about these public Festa's was people who came loved them; it attracted new members, but the members typically didn't attend anything else, never volunteered, and basically were gone in about 9 months when their dues lapsed.
Over the last 3 years the executive boards, of which I have been involved in as an officer or a committee chairperson for 16 years, along with concurrence of the membership has focused a cultural/social, calendar that is comprised of:
(1) a few major events for the members and friend such as Carnivale Dinner Dance, Family Festa, and a Christmas Dinner Dance;
(2) Two Spaghetti Night events when the ICA men cook and serve an extensive buffet dinner
(3) two to three Italian Classic Movie nights - these are movies in Italian language with English subtitles for those of us who were never taught Italian by our parents.
(4) three to four wine tasting events at a restaurant or a member's home
(5) cultural day trips - Olive Oil tasting, Italian artist visit etc.
(6) Italian card games, Bocce Ball competition, and other social events
All of these events are member paid and some are subsidized by the ICA.
The average age of members is probably 60 - 62. Less than 20% of our members are under 40. Our children, most in their late 30s to early 40s have way too much on their plate with work and family to be active. They attend events and know the other member's children, but they have no desire to take an active role.
My recommendation before you move forward with trying to create your own Italian group would be to first check out some of the other Italian groups in Texas such as
(1) The Italian Federation of Houston -- there are a number of chapters that reach out beyond Houston proper - http://www.houstonitaliancenter.com/
(2) There is also The Italian Club of Dallas - www.itcd.org
(3) Check out the National Italian American Foundation - there is a local Vice President in Houston http://www.niaf.org/
(4) Check out the Son's of Italy - http://www.osia.org/
(5) There is another Italian group in Austin called "A Taste of Italy" - it is operated by a single person who sponsors cooking, language classes, and other events for a fee. This is her business.
I have included a membership packet as an example of how we have members join.
Patrick, I hope this helps you. Should you have any specific questions email me or you can reach me on my cell phone.
Bob Calvisi
ICA Cultural/Membership Committee
email: rjcaustin@aol.com
Cell: 512-657-6808
www.austinitalians.org
Dear Bob:
We are digesting all you have written. We admire your tenacity, and want to duplicate it. I promise to get back to you soon with a plan for the "Lost Italians of Brazos Valley." We will definitely base it on your successes. Dozens of ideas are bubbling up even at this very moment.
Yours, with warmest regards,
Pat Darnell, the other half of Marinella
ps. Can't thank you enough for your heartfelt response.
Contact Bob Calvisi at membership@AustinItalians.org for more information retrieved today at http://www.austinitalians.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=4:4
Dear Mr. Calvisi:
Good Morning. What do I need to do to Charter the Bryan/College Station Italian Cultural Association? Will you help me?
Though I am as Texan as it gets my wife Marinell A. Ruggiero Darnell is the first in her family to come to the USA. She is from Foggia, Italia, and we go there to reunite the family every two or three years. Your published reasons to join are exactly why I am writing you this morning.
Reasons You Should Participate in the ICA
1. To meet and be with other Italian Americans to share old country and family traditions.
2. To participate in ongoing social and cultural activities in and around Austin.
3. To share and learn information about "things" Italian.
4. To receive an informative newsletter to let you know about ICA members and planned activities.
5. To participate in the Italian Festival – enjoy great food, great friendship and meet the families of other members.
6. To share the joy of Christmas with other ICA members at the dinner and dance party
We are looking forward to your response. Hopefully, you can guide us in our task.
With warmest regards,
Patrick Darnell
>>MooPigWisdom.blogspot.com
Italianwomanintexas.blogspot.com
Patrick:
I just recently received your email so please use this email to respond: rjcaustin@aol.com
This is going to be short story, but hopefully you will find it informative and useful.
Our group is relatively small (about 80 active members) and we are very independent. There are supposedly about 5,000 Italian-Americans living in the tri-county area, but the most we've ever had in membership is about 135 about 5 years ago, economy slowed down lot of transfers out of state and the membership has never grown. Our by-laws restrict members to a 50-mile area surrounding Austin, otherwise there is little participation.
Here is how our group started in the mid-80s. There were six gentlemen that worked at IBM - all from the NY area - and like many others who transferred to Austin from IBM they were Italian. The gathered on occasion at a local Italian restaurant, owned by an NY Italian, and decided one year to have a weekend get together inviting anyone Italian that they worked with or knew from the restaurant. Everyone contributed food and wine and they had a great time. They did it a second year and it was a great success again. One of the members had been involved with the Sons of Italy Italian Organization in NY, but this organization kept the women separate and with no voting privileges -- that wasn't going to happen in Austin -- so they decided to just start a social group with members paying $8.00 per month into a checking account. The asked all of the people who attended the two Family Festa's to join and they got a total of 14 members (7 couples) our of about 50-60 who had attended the event.
My wife and I were invited to join the ICA in 1986. It was by coincidence that our oldest daughter's best friend in high school was the daughter of one of the original members. We became friends with the restaurant owner and his wife separately, and met some other Italians at the restaurant. To our amazement when these acquaintances attended our daughter's graduation open house they all knew each other, but we were not aware of the ICA connection. So they asked us to join.
Over the next 6 - 7 years we social things together and every October we would have a Family Festa with all the members providing they food and beverages. Our children would attend, parents, close friends -- but they all had to be Italian. We used our dues money to reimburse ourselves for the Family Festa expenses.
We would meet 9 - 10 times per year at someone's house and have a meeting. I thing we debated expanding the club for three years before we took a vote. Once we approved potential expansion of the ICA we decided we needed By-laws so we got a copy from some other organization and created our own - it was still a social club and at lease one member of a couple had to have an Italian blood-line of some sort to become a member. We of course took someone's word they were Italian because we had no way to prove a blood line other than a good family heritage story.
In about 1993, most of the original members began to retire from IBM and they developed other priorities. My wife and I, as the youngest members and the only ones not from NY, decided we loved out Italian friends and if we didn't expand the ICA it would fade away because interest was declining -- the friendships were very strong, but everyone but us working folk were traveling and it was difficult to get events planned.
Much to our surprise in the summer of 1994, there was an article in the local paper about someone trying to get Italians together, then there we a few that started to meet at our friend's restaurant so we visited with both groups in the fall of 1994 and found a lot of common interest. In December 1994 we hosted an open house and invited every Italian we knew or had met. The result, we ended up with about 50 people who all brought food and drink and it was a wonderful atmosphere and we met some new friends with Italian background.
In 1995, after a few more gallons of wine and conversation, it was decided that these new Italians would be invited to join the ICA since we already had an infrastructure. Over the next 3 -4 years we went from 16 members to about 70 members - there is a definite learning curve on how to get members involved and how to find places to meet without a facility. We even developed a Strategic Planning Committee that made suggestions for growth and the needs we would require. That was a great experience to participate an overall other than not finding a way to get "our own ICA home" much of what we planned has been accomplished.
In 2001, we held a widely promoted Festa Italiana! Of which we had about 2,500 attendees. It was a great event, but a lot of hard work and great financial exposure if it was rained out. In 2002, we expanded the Festa to two-day event - partial rain - lots of work and expenses, and we broke even financially at best.
In 2003 we decided to become a non-profit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization in order to expand the club, concentrate on developing some charitable ties, moving more towards a cultural organization, and making it easier to have sponsors deduct any contributions they made to the ICA. We had to change the by-laws, open membership to anyone who wanted to join and reshuffled dues so not all events (social or cultural) were fully funded by the ICA.
In 2004, we did another Festa Italiana! (One day at a new location in downtown Austin. Great location, great entertainment, great food from local Italian restaurants, and lots of beer and wine; but lots of set-up expenses since stages, tents, lighting all needed to be rented. Not promoted heavy enough and with less than 2,000 attendees we lost $2,500. The members eventually decided the financial exposure, the long hours of volunteer work, and the inability of the contracted promoters to deliver what they promised was not worth the effort so we went back to having family gatherings every August.
What we found out about these public Festa's was people who came loved them; it attracted new members, but the members typically didn't attend anything else, never volunteered, and basically were gone in about 9 months when their dues lapsed.
Over the last 3 years the executive boards, of which I have been involved in as an officer or a committee chairperson for 16 years, along with concurrence of the membership has focused a cultural/social, calendar that is comprised of:
(1) a few major events for the members and friend such as Carnivale Dinner Dance, Family Festa, and a Christmas Dinner Dance;
(2) Two Spaghetti Night events when the ICA men cook and serve an extensive buffet dinner
(3) two to three Italian Classic Movie nights - these are movies in Italian language with English subtitles for those of us who were never taught Italian by our parents.
(4) three to four wine tasting events at a restaurant or a member's home
(5) cultural day trips - Olive Oil tasting, Italian artist visit etc.
(6) Italian card games, Bocce Ball competition, and other social events
All of these events are member paid and some are subsidized by the ICA.
The average age of members is probably 60 - 62. Less than 20% of our members are under 40. Our children, most in their late 30s to early 40s have way too much on their plate with work and family to be active. They attend events and know the other member's children, but they have no desire to take an active role.
My recommendation before you move forward with trying to create your own Italian group would be to first check out some of the other Italian groups in Texas such as
(1) The Italian Federation of Houston -- there are a number of chapters that reach out beyond Houston proper - http://www.houstonitaliancenter.com/
(2) There is also The Italian Club of Dallas - www.itcd.org
(3) Check out the National Italian American Foundation - there is a local Vice President in Houston http://www.niaf.org/
(4) Check out the Son's of Italy - http://www.osia.org/
(5) There is another Italian group in Austin called "A Taste of Italy" - it is operated by a single person who sponsors cooking, language classes, and other events for a fee. This is her business.
I have included a membership packet as an example of how we have members join.
Patrick, I hope this helps you. Should you have any specific questions email me or you can reach me on my cell phone.
Bob Calvisi
ICA Cultural/Membership Committee
email: rjcaustin@aol.com
Cell: 512-657-6808
www.austinitalians.org
Dear Bob:
We are digesting all you have written. We admire your tenacity, and want to duplicate it. I promise to get back to you soon with a plan for the "Lost Italians of Brazos Valley." We will definitely base it on your successes. Dozens of ideas are bubbling up even at this very moment.
Yours, with warmest regards,
Pat Darnell, the other half of Marinella
ps. Can't thank you enough for your heartfelt response.
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