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Message   Mark Hofmann    Rob McCart   Re: Midterms   August 21, 2022
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RM> My friend above I have known since we both bought motorcycles in high
RM> school about 50 years ago. He and I went in totally different directions
RM> after school, him getting a telecom job and keeping it until he was in
RM> his 60's even though, due to family inheritances, he could have retired
RM> in semi-luxury much sooner. We get together now and then and he tends to
RM> introduce me to other friends of his as a bit of a curiosity, not in a
RM> bad way, just in the spirit of me taking 'the path less traveled by'. I
RM> worked fairly hard and amassed a bit of a stake and then more or less
RM> disappeared into the woods, supposedly for a year or so originally, but
RM> 35 years later I'm still here..
RM> 
RM> Surprisingly not as many people as you might expect think I'm nuts. Most
RM> wish they could have done something similar.. B)

That would be me, too.  For instance if I bought a 2nd home in the woods
somewhere, I could see that becoming my main home very quickly.  Especially when
I eventually exit work, which can't come soon enough.

I never say never as you never know what life will bring.

- Mark

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