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Far Away

Konrad Adenauer was from he Rhineland and had ambivalent feelings about eastern Germans.  In later years he traveled to Berlin and as the train crossed the Elbe River he muttered, "Now we enter Asia."
When we are far from what is familiar it almost seems like we are entering another continent, or planet.  Yet people everywhere have the same wants, foibles and needs.

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