Two Countries Divided by a Common Language

Enjoy your holiday - Spanish again. Are you fluent yet? You should be given the number of visits.

Tiempo que ha aprendido este idioma si usted va a tener esa pequeña casa allí, un día o tal vez nunca.

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When Yes can mean No...I mean no end of economic trouble. But you also once said 'No' when you meant 'Yes'. I bet you wish you could wind the clock back...


So LL, where do you go from here? He may well soon be living in a foreign country. That will be economically adverse for him, believe me...and perhaps you. I won't go into the 'whys and wherefores', suffice to say there will soon be another currency or a different value to an existing one - to his and his country's detriment.

The title words actually refer to the UK and the USA and are an old quotation.

Funny, your last (?) two men ending up living in, what, to you, are foreign countries...at least, in his case it's looking that way! Things over that border are going to cost a lot more for the locals if it goes in that direction. 

Economically speaking, and perhaps in many other ways, I was the one to follow, to stay with and to live with, but you knew best, except of course as we both know...you didn't

I invited you to communicate recently, but it seems you are too afraid to do so for some obscure reason... Shame I would have enjoyed talking again after the break. No past talk, just the present and future. Leave it to you to decide...if you have the courage, which I doubt.

We have been busy since Thursday of the previous week - trip to and from New York (business and my 10th book negotiations) three dinner parties (one in NY and the other two here in Florida) and the wedding of a niece. Then this last week up to Memphis, Tennessee on business. Spent the weekend relaxing at our cottage on Sanibel Island and out on the Gulf in our boat.

Seems you must be busy too. Hardly a tweet out of you. Enjoy that holiday by the way ;-)

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When I think back to where we were once, it seems life has not been as kind to you as it has to me. You supposedly 'moved on' from me, but in fact you never did. Move on in life, that is. You are pretty much where you were. I don't need to repeat again where I am...do I.

You once made me laugh...well lots of times, if the truth be known...when you said that if things didn't work out for you and him, you would come back. Like many things in your life you  made the wrong decision and if you had expected me to be waiting then you were living in a dream world.

I am sure you find the part life you have with him 'acceptable', but not much more than that. It is evident in the way you 'over compensate' in your remarks for the events you post on social media. Somehow I think you are trying to impress me or alternatively rub my nose in your life. If you really think about it, none of it impresses. I certainly don't envy your life style. In fact, your over the top remarks are quite revealing about the inadequacies of that life.

I genuinely feel sorry for you. You were a fool to pass on the life that was on offer. You said you always make the wrong decisions, and you did regarding us....well and truly...as you more than once admitted in 2006. I did warn you when we were corresponding, but as usual you knew best. Why you didn't come back all comes down to courage in my view. You were afraid to leave him, literally, and afraid I might leave you high and dry. A very insecure lady - methinks. I wouldn't have done, incidentally for one very good reason. The best reason, really. 

I don't think I have said much about BJ, Cas, Jim and Rick...my closest male friends....and their wives of course. So here's a little background. 

BJ is an African American who strangely, and to me humorously, shares a name with you - albeit it's a first name for him. That's a source of some amusement to my friends as well. If you saw him you'd know why. He's over 6 feet tall, fit and, of course, not white. He is ex-USN - an officer - quite high ranking in fact and now works for the Government (US naturally) in a semi civilian role  utilizing his skills. We met during my RN days, initially in Norfolk....Virginia.....not the UK. 

Cas, or Charles to give him his full name, is a brother officer from the RN. Now retired and married to Liz an American lady. Cas is also a US citizen like me. He works in the media.

Jim is US Navy retired. He had a quite varied career as a USN fixed wing pilot. After that he flew commercial jets for a while. A Pennsylvanian, he and I go back a long, long way to the 60's when  we were both very young men.

Rick (Richard) was never in the Navy. We met in recent years (last 10) through a shared business interest, firstly in oil and drilling and now in fracking. Very rewarding for us both - at least our corporations, that is. 

That's just a brief outline of some of my friends - the one's you once accused me of not having. We share a friend, you know, one of your ladies, but you'll never know which one unless we speak again :)

Thought you might appreciate a few photos to go with the text, so here you go:

Youngest Granddaughter

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That man again!

 Oregon Sand Dune - Hot!

Closer to Home - One of His

On that note I'll sign off for now. Still looking good :)))))))))

One more thought:

Amor vincit omnia

(It's Latin, not Italian)

Ciao.................................................................................

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PS Tell your man that his write up on Waterstones exhibits poor English usage/grammar, punctuation and repetition of words. Hope his book is better written. Did he not have it proof read?