The Internet will bring the world together, Wirt.
John M  Penney
Department of Licensing
State of Washington
Olympia, WA
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> From:         Wirt Atmar[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent:         Friday, December 22, 2000 1:27 PM
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> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] OT: My favorite Christmas card
>
> > VERY interesting tale.  I wonder why the girlfriend waited a whole year
> to
> > tell the guy she was going to marry someone else ???
>
> Several people wrote me and asked very similar questions to this. I wrote
> back the following to the question above:
>
> "Just being polite, I suspect.
>
> They were both from eastern New Mexico, right on the Texas panhandle
> border,
> and they had been high school sweethearts.
>
> But it did obviously come as a shock to Gaither, who genuinely thought the
> wedding was still on."
>
> Heck, it came as a great shock to me, too.
>
> Nonetheless, because of these questions, I decided to see if I could find
> Gaither on the web -- and sure as shooting -- confirming my opinion that
> you
> can find anything on the web nowadays in just a few minutes, I found a
> very
> nice web page about Gaither at:
>
>      http://www.scmcmorris.com/staff/eruc.html
>
> And because of that, I just called and spoke with him for a few minutes --
> the first time in 30 years -- and that was a genuine Christmas treat.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>