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		<title>Joy&#8217;s Diamond Ring (5):Romance &amp; Racketeers by Robert M. Katzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 5  Then very carefully guiding my hand, he tilted it so that all the valuable little critters fell neatly back into their glassine home, where all the inhabitants were equal.  He folded the top of the envelope over, returned the envelope to its appropriate slot on the black tray, surrounded by dozens of other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Pat Report (#2): Making the Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are more answers to questions from late June. Q. Is it difficult to adjust to far less space? A.  Do you mean Netherlands? Oh, the boat!  I miss the counter space in the kitchen.  It is hard to find space to set things down and impossible for two people to work.  Other than that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy&#8217;s Diamond Ring (4):Romance &amp; Racketeers&#8230;by Robert M. Katzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 4  After Buddy was released from ‘The Slammer’, as my Dad always phrased it, his relationship with my Dad resumed like nothing had ever interrupted it, like World War II, for example.  Buddy the Hun was unavailable to serve his country in that war because he was already serving his sentence in that same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.differentslants.com/?p=1128</link>
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		<title>Joy&#8217;s Diamond Ring (3):Romance &amp; Racketeers&#8230;by Robert M. Katzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 3  In the furniture store’s office, there was a secretary who answered the phones and did all the filing as the various orders came through from all the salesmen who worked there.  She was a young black woman who set up all the appointments, called “leads” (and pronounced like “leeds”) for my father and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy&#8217;s Diamond Ring (2):Romance &amp; Racketeers&#8230;by Robert M. Katzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2:  About a year prior to that evening at the Kinzie Steakhouse, I once read an item in a movie magazine about actor Richard Burton, giving his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, a ridiculously enormous diamond ring.  I remember dismissively saying to Joy that for a diamond that large, a person could go to Europe twenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy&#8217;s Diamond Ring (1):Romance &amp; Racketeers&#8230;by Robert M. Katzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not your usual love story.  A Chicago West Side tribal immigrant’s tale, encompassing:  Friendship, Jewelry and Gangsters. A puzzle with so many pieces, all steadily adding up to Joy’s diamond ring.   On December 31, 1977, New Year’s Eve, I invited my long-time love, Joyce Esther Bishop, then 27, to dinner at a famous old Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Saga of &#8220;The Stuff&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;OK&#8221;, you are saying, &#8220;enough about stuff already&#8221;.  This is the last of it, I promise.  It is just that I think it is important we understand our relationship with our stuff if we are to understand ourselves. Where did it all come from? The story starts in 1984 when Mary and I returned to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.differentslants.com/?p=1077</link>
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		<title>Ex-Pat Report (#1): Rick &amp; Mary Floating Through Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rick Munden and Robert M. Katzman The Situation: Rick and Mary Munden, residents of California for a quarter century, sold their house and car and gave away or disposed of almost everything else they had accumulated during that time so as to condense their life sufficiently to allow them to live their lives on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.differentslants.com/?p=1068</link>
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		<title>New Life in the Old Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary and I have been living in a marina just outside of Stavoren for about ten days.  Stavoren is a village in an area of northern Netherlands called Friesland, that was once a very wealthy town.  Its wealth was based on shipping and fishing.  It began its decline in the 12th century when a sand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.differentslants.com/?p=1051</link>
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		<title>Eulogy for Bonnie Sue&#8230;by her brother, Bob Katzman 6/11/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Older Sister                                                                                                                                                                                                    Wherever you are                                                                                                                                                                                                       I hope it’s all                                                                                                                                                                                                                Periwinkle                                                                                                                                                                                                               Fuchsia                                                                                                                                                                                                                       and                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Mauve The daughter                                                                                                                                                                                                               of an                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Interior Decorator                                                                                                                                                                                              Ought to                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Dwell in Eternity                                                                                                                                                                                                       In a                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Universe                                                                                                                                                                                                                        of                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Subtle colors You                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Were the Perfect one                                                                                                                                                                                           You                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Did everything                                                                                                                                                                                                  Right:  Dressed right Acted right Great grades Perfect parties Perfect in Hebrew School Perfect house So polite [...]]]></description>
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