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alcina

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6. That's an interesting theory

Reply to JBoy (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 10:42 AM

Feb 2015

I had some encounters with JB many years ago, when he was just a conservative fledgling. "Bully" is an understatement, though I hear from mutual acquaintances that he's softened quite a bit in his old age. There was a lot of room there, so maybe....

But when I heard he was stepping down, my first thought was that he'd found a special guy and had to make a hard choice. Wishful thinking, I guess.

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