I am Migrating to Blogger

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Moving to a new country in blogosphere from old Serendipity platform to Blogger. Please ignore  large scale archivist dump of all my posts in seemingly illogical,  non-chronological order.
GVH

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  1. Daniel R. CobbNovember 22, 2012 at 11:34 PM

    Gail, your blog is great. Fierce resistance to indifference. I applaud you.
    Dan Cobb

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