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Day: April 23, 2006

Been there and done that …

I walked my own personal, original, unrestored segment of the Great Wall on Sunday. Watching the sunset over the hills to the west, the cherry blossoms striping the slopes, the flapping of the flags on the parapets ….

As Richard Nixon said in 1972: “That sure is a great wall.”

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