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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (431875)4/21/2017 11:29:42 AM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Most Americans - especially the good ones - don't want to admit it, but there are a lot of ugly people in the USA, Trump just stands at the head of the pack.

I always felt that I belonged more in Canada than the USA. I am going to be 64 next month and honestly I always felt like a foreigner talking to most Americans.

Interesting, I spent the summer in Montreal in 1975, living a couple of blocks from Mcgill University and I got very involved with a French Canadian woman who was a student at Mcgill and lived right next to me. How convenient! I studied my philosophy and wrote during the day and got high with this woman every evening and had great sex. She use to take me all around to the cafes and restaurants. I really experienced Montreal and liked it very much. People were very friendly and nice. When I left, I started Graduate School in NYC and just ignored her. It was like I became married to philosophy and didn't want any long distance distractions. I met my first wife that year in NYC.

In retrospect, I could have probably married this woman and become Canadian. I think I probably would've been happier living in Canada.

I have no regrets, just looking back at the choices I made.



To: Terry Maloney who wrote (431875)4/21/2017 11:50:47 AM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
I had a good friend who was accepted to McGill University Medical School and I stayed at his place in Montreal for nothing while he was travelling all over Europe the summer before med school started. I was there a good couple of months. My experience in Montreal led me to suggest to my brother to apply to Med School at Mcgill a few years later, which he did.