<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear All, Sorry this dropped off.  Here is John's reflection!   Gail</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:13.5pt"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Golden Journey</span></font></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:rgb(238,238,204);line-height:18pt"><em><i><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#333333" size="3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">We joined as two</span></font></i></em></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:rgb(238,238,204);line-height:18pt"><br></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:rgb(238,238,204);line-height:18pt"><i><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#333333" size="3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><em><i><font face="Trebuchet MS">And became one</font></i></em></span></font></i></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:rgb(238,238,204);line-height:18pt"><i><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#333333" size="3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><em><i><font face="Trebuchet MS">Fifty years ago today</font></i></em></span></font></i></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:rgb(238,238,204);line-height:18pt"><i><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#333333" size="3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><br></span></font></i></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px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