She actually became a Conservative in her final years.
I stand corrected.
Girlfriend lived in the “Mary Tyle Moore house.”
Nice place back then. Hennipen Lake, is what we called the nearby lake. Walks.
Liberals who would not take responsibility for their political decisions - they were attracted to being defined as “enlightened.”
The downtown was a ghost town. 3M, Cargill, Land-O-Lakes, Honeywell, and Control Data doing OK. Some small industries getting by. Summer heat sold a lot of air-conditioning.
Wherever there might have been crime, I did not venture near.
Eventually, I could not get work that paid enough and tried elsewhere.
The girls with Scandanavian bloodlines - in single digit winter, wearing a sweater and bluejeans but no parka, smooth glowing cheeks with smiles: Wow.
One cold day years later, I was flying via MPLS and just off the plane, spotted two beauties, then turned to look at the TV that was getting more attention.
Sully had just landed the AirBus on the Hudson River.