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Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 20:55

…One hundred singers from 24 states and several countries had gathered to rehearse for one week and to perform this work at the magnificent St. Patrick’s Chapel at Maynooth University outside of Dublin, Ireland. Our nametags indicated that we were both from Philadelphia. We began to chat and somehow, within a remarkably short time — maybe about one minute — we figured out that we were both from Bartlesville. Then rehearsal began.…"

We once flew from Chicago to Fairbanks, for a family meet-up, then drove north all the way to the Yukon. Standing there, by the side of the river, we encountered a most obnoxious couple — from Chicago.