>>>>Thats Ted's dream. Not what they refer to as the American dream.
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>>>From what I learned during my years there, the american dream is to take someone to court and get a big pile of money out of him. The american nightmare is that someone will take you to court and get a big pile of money out of you.
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>>You are wrong.
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>And you are right. I am so proud to live in a country that is so welcoming to foreigners. People like you make me proud to be an American.
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>Don't let this go to your head ;-)
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>All is well with Emily now. Having something bad happen to our children is about the worst thing imaginable. I have barely slept in 4 nights. We probably all grow up selfish and then we have kids and discover something more profound.
Thank you for your kind words.
I am glad she is well (as a fellow father). And hopefully the "bad apple" won't spoil her overall experience of Prague. Does she write to you a detailed account of her study/social life/etc. in Prague?
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
