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I don’t know how many of you like the New York Times. Occasionally the Chronicle will carry a story from them but not many. Now the NYT has dropped the charge for their online paper. I’ve taken the printed version a few times when they had half price offers and was thinking about subscribing to the online version and then they changed. Their aim is to make up the subscription prices in ads. I could tell them right now I’m not going to be a big source of support there but I’m enjoying it while it’s there.
This morning I decided to check and see what the Washington Post had–sure enough, it’s free, too. I spent a lot of time online–that’s the downside–but it was worth a story in the Post today about a construction crew renovating an old building, finding an old suitcase with pictures and letters referring to 1923 but no ownership. There was one name that appeared. Cutting to the chase, one of the men located the son, a lawyer now living in Washington–when he was a child his mother and father had a business in that building–they died 20 years ago. It was so nice to read a good story–someone going the trouble to locate the family–the man was very grateful–he sat up that night reading and looking at those early pictures and letters.
Candace