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Name: Earl
Birthday: December 31
Gender: Male
Status: Married
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Location:
Delaware
United States
Hometown(s):
Atlanta, GA
San Diego, CA
Honolulu, HI
Merchantville, NJ
Jackson, MS
Shreveport, LA
Phoenix, AZ
Cocoa Beach, FL
Johnson City, TN
Ashland, MA
Nashua, NH
Huntsville, AL
Charlotte, NC
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was born in Georgia a couple of miles from the marker where GA, TN and NC meet. I found my first passion, reading, at the age of five. By age ten I had discovered kayaking, hiking and camping. I discovered what everyone discovers at fourteen or fifteen. Cars! Sports cars, eventually Triumph Spitfires and Saab Sonetts. At seventeen came scuba and computers courtesy of the US Navy. At twenty-three, marriage and a family forced me to start acting as normal as possible while working in field service on all the many types of computers. Retirement several years ago from a technical consulting position and a 45th wedding anniversary coming up 5/19/08 indicate I must have made a few good decisions over the years.

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Some of the ways I try to help make the world a better place are http://www.nrdc.org/ , http://www.savebiogems.org/ , http://www.oceana.org/international-home-nao/ and http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ among many others. Play time is kayaking, scuba, hiking, backpacking, camping and computers.
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Added: February 29, 2008
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obxnc
obxnc says:
That's wonderful news, Earl. I'll be praying that physical therapy won't be needed for I know you're anxious to get paddling again:>). I'm not familiar with St. Joe Bay though I attended college in Pensacola years (and years!) ago....beautiful white sand beaches. Loved that but hated the humidity and the water bugs that seemed the size of small children! Bette
Posted: May 8, 2008 1:07AM EDT
obxnc
obxnc says:
Hi Earl,
It' good news that he was able to remove all the cancerous cells. I don't believe in coincidences either.Possibly if you had not been stung, the skin cancer may not have been noticed by you until it was a bit further along. My husband died of a rare form of cancer in which he did not meet the criteria of susceptibility. Coincidence? No. But the "why" leaves me sleepless still. The pictures of OBX makes me sooooo "homesick":>). Are you planning a trip for this summer?
Take care,
Bette
Posted: April 30, 2008 5:16PM EDT
Oldkayaker
Oldkayaker says:
Bette, I don't have much time right now but wanted to post this:
"SCCs may also occur where skin has suffered certain kinds of injury: burns, scars, long-standing sores, sites previously exposed to X-rays or certain chemicals (such as arsenic and petroleum by-products). In addition, chronic skin inflammation or medical conditions that suppress the immune system over an extended period of time may encourage development of the disease." I find it easier to accept misfortune when I am able to determine probable cause.

I'm leaving for St. Joe bay in the Florida panhandle just as soon as the doctors turn me loose. Earl

Posted: May 1, 2008 6:52PM EDT
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