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Surely some god blessed\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethose staggered envelopes which arrived in the nick of time and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealways on air, on air, on air. I had given up breakdancing on the prairie for floating on the ocean. As it turned out, neither occupation was sunset proof. And friends fade away too. Last I heard, Danny was in Vegas dealing Blackjack. Remember how some novelist\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom another century said you can’t go home again? What nonsense. 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