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Don’t overlook people.  People like Aubrey and Amy Marlin.  Aubrey and Amy ran a small country store close to where Bett and I lived forty plus years in the country, off came Ridge road-about two cow-banels from Dimple. 
Both gone now-both salt-of-the-earth folks.  We would visit them on summer nights.  We sat and talked about this and that.  Amy had folks in Texas.  Fact is her dad lived there at that time, in West Texas.  She at times visited out there.  Her Texas kin would come here to visit her during vacation time.  However Amy deferred to Aubrey to do most of the talking.  I knew he was in Europe in World War II, in an infantry company.  Like most former combat soldiers he would not tell much about the actual fighting.  He did say that on one occasion when his platoon stormed a German emplacement on high ground, he and two others were the only ones who walked away afterward.  They were to have had artillery support, but it got there too late.
 On a more pleasant note, when the war in Europe ended and all his buddies were preparing to return home, Aubrey told them he wasn’t going right then.  “But you’ll miss the boat home,” they warned.  “There’ll be another boat,” Aubrey told them.”  I’m going somewhere and take a long bath in a nice room, eat a good meal, and sleep in a nice, soft bed.  I won’t crawl out of that nice-soft bed until I’m ready.
Aubrey spent a couple weeks doing just that, down on the southern coast of France at one of the plush resorts.  Good for you Aubrey; you richly deserved that, more to.  Aubrey and Amy-fondly remembered.
                                Kindest regards….