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To: TR List <triumphs@autox.team.net>, fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
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From: Dave Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:27:59 -0500
Fred Thomas wrote:

>When I first started to drink I was told you are allowed so many gallons
>of booze in your lifetime, I used my total allotment up in 25 years
>instead of a lifetime. Yes teetotal for 15 years come 4/2. I am a cancer
>patient (throat) of 15 years from hard drinking and smoking, the Doc.
>said if you stop now I can help you, if you keep going, no one can help
>you. I have never talked to anyone who said the grass was greener on the
>underside of that grave, so I quit cold turkey both habits at the same
>time and have "Never" touched either since that day. I'm now 65, look
>like I'm 85, feel like I'm 95, but, think I'm 25, and still drive the
>H@#$ out of my T/R 3-A as often as possible.

I admire your resolve, Fred.  I can't leave a box of Girl Scout cookies
alone, try as I might.  My Dad quit cigarettes cold turkey 2 days before
I was born.  Carried a pack in his shirt pocket for a week.  He's 73,
looks 65,  Feels 55, and drives like an old man.  ;-0

Dave Massey




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