You Can Get Rabies Anywhere

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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There is no place like home

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I was crossing the Atlantic Ocean on an airplane, when a voice said, "If there is a power failure, lights will come on along the aisles." If they were to have a power failure when you were on the plane, would you want to know about it? If there is a power failure on an airplane does anybody really care if there are little lights along the aisles? In Maine they'll tell you you can't get there from here. In Scotland they try to make you believe that you can. Everywhere you go in Scotland, you arrive just in time to see your ferry leaving or your plane taking off. The most wonderful poster I saw in any train station in Europe showed a little girl holding a big, beautiful fluffy cat. Underneath it said, "You can pick up rabies anywhere." I?m Robert Skoglund and I have returned to Tenants Harbor, Maine.
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