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Had a wonderful time and have lots to share but before I do I want to tell about sometning that happened before we left.

This story started when I was in high school. I was a Junior and my sister was a Senior. Unlike me she was definitely unnerdlike and was secretary of her Senior Class. One of her duties as Senior Class secretary was to put on the Senior Girls Prom. She worked very hard at this for several weeks and them the night before the prom, her boyfriend split with her. Here she was promoter of the Senior Girls Prom and she didn't have anyone to go with her. Where could she turn? You guessed it, little old nerdy me. I dated my sister and we have a prom picture together. And yes, it was the only prom I went to.

Go forward many years until week before last. I have been going to AA for a while and this is only mentioned because it is central to the story. I knew I would be going in some Irish pubs and went to a meeting to get a little "fortification" for the trip. I got to the meeting here in Johnson City, Tennessee and had not said a word to anyone about why I was there or where I was going, I just showed up. The first guy to speak was of all things an Irishman. He starts off this way: "You know, there is a saying in Ireland that a man who wouldn't drink in an Irish pub would date his sister to the prom." It was downhill from there.