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Body:	<i>A shoutout to Larry for creating and monitoring this website. To my detriment, I had pretty much ignored it. I shouldnâ€™t have. Itâ€™s delightful to learn about my classmates leading such interesting and productive lives in so many places. My husband and I moved to Silicon Valley (Portola Valley) in 1992. We are fully retired, but like so many of you, immerse ourselves in grandchildren or hobbies or travel or volunteering, or even work, or any or all of the above. On January 24, we were mid-journey on a ship cruising from New York to Hong Kong, emerging from the Suez Canal to work its way around the Arabian/Persian Gulf. By that day, the news was widespread that Covid-19 was contagious and deadly. Lacking solid information from the cruise line or the captain as to their intentions, we decided to â€œjump shipâ€ a week later in Dubai while there was still some hope of getting home without major complications. It was a good decision: the ship made no more scheduled port calls but drifted in the Indian Ocean for several weeks. The passengers were finally let off in Perth. A few weeks after we got home from our aborted cruise, we started a 3-monthsâ€™ lease on a house on Bainbridge Island, close to Seattle where one set of kids/grandkids live. Just as we arrived, everything in Seattle and its environs began shutting down. We did not want to get stranded and had to isolate from the kids in any event, so we jumped in the car and headed back to Portola Valley to hunker down next to our books, doctors, big screen, and good sound system. The best laid plans of mice and men. . . Still, we are exquisitely aware that we are among the luckiest, while so many of our fellow countrymen are suffering. First while on the high seas, then overlooking Puget Sound and the Seattle skyline, under the blanket of persistently sketchy telecommunications in both places, we could feel somewhat insulated from all the bad news. Back in the â€œrealâ€ world, we had to squarely face the fact of a federal government firing on fewer than all pistons, driven by a duly elected malignant narcissist. He once observed correctly that his supporters, a substantial fraction of Americans, would stay loyal even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue. Some are still devoted to their guru, apparently prepared to pass around the Clorox jug. Is democracyâ€™s immune system strong enough to survive the double assault of a pandemic and a dysfunctional president? Letâ€™s do what we can to keep it alive and well. Stay healthy! </i> *
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