<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><b>Forty years ago, about this time of year, when I was in Costa Rica for the first time, a native asked me where I was from. I replied that I was a Canadiense. To which he responded, "Pero somos todos Americanos." (But we are all Americans.) I have never forgotten that.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><b>Ralph Nielsen</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><b>Ellen Roskovich</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20Donovan%2C%20Canadians%20ARE%20Americans%21&In-Reply-To="><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>gussie443 at hotmail.com </u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Sun Dec 21 08:16:01 PST 2008</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Well, Donovan, you have gone and done it.....forced me to hop up on my soapbox and give you what for in the name of all my Canadian friends. Trust me.....they get very annoyed with their neighbors to the south when we call them Canadians and refer to ourselves as "Americans".....as if we owned the entire North American continent instead of sharing it.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">I rather like the notion that we have to share.....and that there's another little bridge of land to the south with Mexico.....also Americans....and if we follow that Central American bridge, we end up in South America. Kind of like going from one neighborhood to another. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Stay warm, Moscow.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Ellen A. Roskovich</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p>
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