Mike and EllenBuck and I flew to San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 12. My youngest sister, Ellen, had flown in from Australia and asked us to meet her in San Francisco. It happens that one of my oldest friends, Beth, lives in San Francisco and had just celebrated her birthday, and had been bugging me and Buck for at least five years to come visit her in her home town. We arranged to meet Ellen and Beth on Wednesday morning, and we all spent the day together.

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