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| A very LARGE dinosaur skeleton in the Chicago airport |
Breakfast
at the hotel was overpriced (15 euro) and blah. I made my way back to the
airport, suffered through the usual wait and got an Economy Plus seat for the
eight-hour-plus to Chicago. I managed to sleep a little, which was good, as I
was bumped three times in Chicago, and spent several hours wandering from gate
to gate. This is the inevitable bad part of flying stand-by. Finally got a
middle Economy seat in the back of a plane; exhausted, I told my friendly
neighbor that I had to sleep. When I woke up, he had saved a can of soda for
me. That sweet man--very married, two grown kids and a dedicated Mormon—spent
the next several hours regaling me with bible passages on his iPhone. It’s not
as ghastly as it sounds. He answered a lot of questions for me; for instance,
the Mormons DO believe in the devil. Second, married couples can choose to go
to the temple to be bound forever, beyond death. So widows and widowers can
remarry, but it’s only for “this” lifetime, as the bound spouse will be waiting
in the afterlife. Fascinating.
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