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from Amman to Ma-An, you could still see a single track of Turkish
            railroad running through the desert, though now abandoned. There was
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            that “Lawrence of Arabia” and his allies blew up, as was illustrated in
            the movie.]

                   We took two rolls of movies and two rolls of 35mm slides –
            hope we got good pictures. My own camera is broken at the moment
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                   Now I’m back in Arabia and back in the harness of work. On
            Wednesday,  we  announced  that  we  would  be  leaving  in  September,
            come what may. It was a shocker to nearly everyone here – they had all
            considered me a “30 year man” here. One fellow I talked to today said,
            “Everyone in town is talking about your leaving.” I said, “Do they think
            we’re crazy to go?” He said, “Better than 75% of them do!” We both
            laughed.
                   I explained in my announcement that we had a family medi-
            cal problem to resolve and when that was over, we were unwilling to
            accept a separation from our children as two of them would be away
            (from Arabia) furthering their education. People without children don’t
            understand this willingness to forgo a successful career, and many with
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            only part of the people accepted the reasons for our decision.

                   It surely hasn’t been an easy thing to do, and the disadvantages
            to the move are terribly obvious. In the long run, however, if we train
            our children right and have the love and loyalty in the family with the
            religious training we seek for them, it should prove to be a wise move.
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            future with as rosy a set of possibilities becoming almost probabilities.
            We were awfully poor when we got married and we loved each other
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            and to start a business. That’s really all we should need.

                   We will make our initial reservations this week. We are thinking
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