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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
Date: 28 Jan 2025 23:15:17 GMT
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In article <o1nipjhs4dg61ddamqv9ofti245gbc0eso@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:16:49 -0500, William Hyde
><wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I went to university here in Toronto, so saved on living expenses.  I 
>>couldn't have afforded to go elsewhere, but then I didn't want to.
>
>I'm a Vancouver boy so went to UBC but went to McMaster (just down the
>road from there) and got both my MBA and MRS (i.e. I met my wife
>there) - now deceased but we had 37 years together; that and 2 girls
>and a boy now all grown up with only a 2 year old granddaughter (born
>2 months after my wife's passing) to show for it.
>
>I lived cheap, got a small scholarship and was the Dean's Teaching
>Assistant (which didn't pay any more than any other TA but looked good
>on the resume) so had enough left over for some basic furniture in my
>first place and her ring.
>
>Given cost of business schools these days that wouldn't have been
>possible.
>
>>As for the unwanted ones, well at least when I express my disdain for 
>>them it is from an informed basis.  Painfully informed because I read 
>>everything I bought.
>
>Ditto though these days that's about 1/3 of what I read (the rest
>coming from the public library)

So did they have a special arm for Canada or did you have to send
international money orders and pay international postage?
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