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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 4/7/2005, you wrote:
> However, better to avoid everything with three leaves than to get a nasty
> rash of poison ivy.  Like all such things, some people get more sensitive 
> with
> repeated exposure but some people seem to become immune.  I used to get 
> ghastly
> cases of it as a child, but I can handle it with bare hands now and it 
> doesn't
> make a rash.

As a kid I was never bothered by PI.  I ran all over the woods behind out 
place and worked with my uncle clearing out brush along the creeks.  I did 
that work because my father could not get near the stuff.  Then about 20 
years ago I came down with a nasty Poison Oak rash and over the next few 
years had several more nasty rashes from PO until I learned to identify it.

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