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To: A_perfect_lady
I was "gifted," just not in math. I also knew that being "gifted" guaranteed nothing.

I knew I would have to earn a living some day, so I taught myself electronics after earning a BA in theology and got a job servicing two-way radio. After thirty years, I am in computers, networking, and SQL database management. I was never angry about my "giftedness" and only wished I had been wacked with the math gift wand rather than the words wand. What does it matter? I earn a very comfortable living and have many thoughtful, intelligent, sensible and rational friends, and an intelligent, lovely wife who disagrees with me adamantly about dangling prepositions, something up with which I will not put.

Reading these DU denizens was astonishing. Liberal snobs all, too complex to be happy, looking down on everyone else.

I wonder if any of them is useful and productive today, or are they on the disability dole?

205 posted on 07/17/2006 5:07:00 PM PDT by TheGeezer (I.will.never.vote.for.John.McCain.)
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To: TheGeezer
something up with which I will not put.

LOL!! That's Churchill, isn't it?? I love that one!

209 posted on 07/17/2006 5:21:58 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: TheGeezer
something up with which I will not put.

I love that!

220 posted on 07/17/2006 7:45:10 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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