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I sincerely wish you luck. I have spent the last 20 years of my life preaching the need to change our life-style, looking after nature, refusing to use products which come in disposable bottles, or else making their manufacturers responsible for their recollection and recycling, not using chemicals that are harmful, the need to forbid the manufacture of huge cars because it
That’s sad ! Some years back my now wife and I wrote about John Hull, the CIA rancher running the Contra drugs for guns network in Costa Rica. Z, April, 1990. We were thinking of retiring there but it sounds like the Bay Area now.
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