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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I turned 80 in January. LOOOVE it! Wouldn’t want to be any younger!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#080808">Susan Fertig-Dykes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought . Isaiah 58:11</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Alton via OE<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Alton <richard.alton@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] We are getting older- what fun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Ok, last week I got an email from Alisa Oyler that her mother, Marilyn Oyler, is turning 80 in April. She asked me if I would send her a card listing a particular gift she brought to the world
or at least a card. No problem- her mom is full of gifts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">And then this morning John Patterson called me up looking for an email address. We chatted and he let me know that his 80<sup>th</sup> birthday was April 22, Earth Day. It is just like John to
have his birthday on the most important day of the year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">I think it is part of the Order Rule that we send anybody who makes it to 80 a card holding up a gift. Well, at least a card. I just sent John a card that said, “I looked all over Chicago for
an 80th birthday card, but nothing. This is as close as I could get- Happy 90<sup>th</sup> birthday- something to grow into!”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Marilyn Oyler: 4208 N. 25th<sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">John Patterson: 1487 Cranberry Lake Road, Haliburton ON, KOM 1S0, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Being late is good- just send a card.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Dick Alton<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard H. T. Alton<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Last Chapter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">T: 773.344.7172<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:richard.alton@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.alton@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Make Plain the Vision, Habakkuh 2:2<o:p></o:p></p>
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