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A special thanks to you all for having me back here

and an extremely special thanks to Don whose kindness is obvious.

He used the word fellowship, that's a general word.

Everybody knows what it means, but you know, how would you define it if each of you

were given a flip of paper and say fellowship is how would you finish it? I heard a

marvelous definition of the word from an old friend of mine, my name

it Dupree, Westbury, down in South Carolina. He has a thing called Fellowship By the Sea once a year.

It's in about its, I don't know, 18th, 19th year now anyway.

And he told this story the first year and has become a tradition.

He opens up Fellowship by the sea with

this there was a young three-piece suited junior executive who decided in his

late 30s to just quit and go out in the country and

raised pigs. Well he had bought him a little farm so out he went and he bought a

sow put her in the pigsty and the first morning he woke up and jumped out of bed, looked down to pigsty and were no pigs.

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