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["Bruce Hansen" <brucedhansen@sbcglobal.net>]

Well said. Remember Idun(sp?) and her apples.

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In a message dated 11/22/2004 1:57:22 PM US Eastern Standard Time, brucedhansen@sbcglobal.net writes:

Given that Chapman planted apple seed, the product was most probably cyder.
After all folk used to drink a prodigious amount of alcohol bearing drink.
They laughed a lot more than we do and were not politically correct.

I think it was Ben Franklin that supposedly said, " Wine is proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."  Those were God loving pioneers!

Jerry