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Subject:Re: Pluto and the Westy
From:David Bjorkman
Date:Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:41:16 -0500

<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><div>RIP Pluto.<br />Rotate in peace.<br /><br />Dave B. <br /></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 08/26/16, <span>Stephen Grisanti&lt;bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM&gt;</span> wrote:</span><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"> As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Pluto's demotion from planethood we also look back on the weekÂ&nbsp;a greyÂ&nbsp;'87 Westy came to live with us.Â&nbsp; Hard to believe it's been a whole decade and the demotion event was sufficiently cosmic for the van to be named in its honor, but I did not like the Disney connotation of the Pluto name and I had always intended to name a Westy after Greta, our local NPR station's crazy German lady announcer, but Pluto seemed tooÂ&nbsp;momentous to be ignored.Â&nbsp; So the van never got a name and ten years later we just call it &quot;the camper.&quot;<br />Guess we need to celebrate and go campering.<br />Stephen<br /></div></div>

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