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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   bridegam@pacbell.net writes:   
      
   > Was thinking the other day about young Eric Blair trying so hard to   
   > spend Christmas in jail and realizing the extent of detachment from   
   > family that implies. Both his parents were then living, and not all   
   > that far from London. They must have wanted him at the dinner table.   
      
   There is an amusing Canadian song (I have a text of it somewhere, but   
   can't find it, even with Google) about a young man who is in prison on   
   a dope charge, and is looking forward to the piece of candy & the   
   tangerine that all the prisoners are going to get on Christmas, and is   
   pissed off because his family manage to get him pardoned so he can be   
   with them for Christmas.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to  :||   
   ||:  do it over.                                                    :||   
      
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