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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

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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

Re-Boot ‘Cause I Have a New Lease on Life: Happy Cockeyed Optimist. I’m Stuck Like a Dope With a Thing called ‘Hope’–C’est Moi!

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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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