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And Yes, Of Course, I Have Read His Book:
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Trivia:
The desert scenes were shot in Jordan and Morocco and Almería and Doñana in Spain.
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Maggie and Hala Used to Sing This Song around Our Office In Amman.
They Were So Charming!
I miss them so much!
I Used to Have Photos of Them,
But those photos perished in the BBQ Fire My Last Wife Set (Bitch!)
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Maggie and Hala Used to Sing This song,
(Did I Mention This Already? No Matter)
a cappella about our office….
G’Damn!
How I Miss Those Girls!
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Mary Hopkin Those Were The Days
Credit For Video Share: GPITRAL2 Music for Learning English
Someday, Perhaps One Day, I Just May Learn To Speak/Write English
(My Hope Always Springs Eternal)
See?
Here is Proof:
Movie: South Pacific
Artist Mitzi Gaynor
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Jordan
How many women have I loved (and lost)???
Better Dust off that TI Calculator
I worked in Amman Jordan for six months.
(Parsons/Bechtel evacuated Iraq at the end of our project—USAID Rural Water Project)
Kempinski Hotel Amman Jordan
Amman: I Loved Amman
We had completed all the ‘on-the-ground’-work.
Nothing left to do but finalize the paper-work.
We could do this in Jordan.
It was ‘safer‘
So said Parsons—No need to get anyone else kilt in Iraq—Made sense I suppose.
I protested.
To no avail.
I wanted to remain in Iraq.
Guess what?
My opinions did not matter.
So I flew to Amman.
Parsons maintained an office there.
Employed locals.
An aside/preamble:
Jordan has some of the most beautiful women in the world. “Danger Will Robinson!” AKA Lance Marcom
I fell hard for one of them.
Working in that office of Parsons’
Her name was Margarete
“Maggie”
She was, of course, an Arab.
But ‘Western-ized and Western- sized:
Meaning ‘Slightly Chunky.’
We fell headlong into love.
This was a monumental fuck-up on my/her part.
I knew better—or should have—we both should have…
Known Better
We did, but we chose to ignore
The danger
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To Be Continued…
Later… Maybe… Probably Not
Gypsy Woman
Performed By Brian Hyland
Written By Curtis Mayfield
I Know! I Know! I KNOW!
I Caint Edit For Shite!
Street Cred for Shared Vid: dcck123
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Some Smallish Added Value:
P.S. I NEVER slept with her!
I just loved her.
She was my friend.
Arabs would have cut her heart out if I had screwed her.
I wanted her to keep her heart in-tack
So I was honourable
(For Once)
For just this once….
I did the right thing.
No shit
“Oh My Friend We’re Older But No Wiser”