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[caption id="attachment_2222" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Alta Bates Community Hospital, Berkeley, CA, circa 1965"][/caption] See that hospital? That's where my lovely wife Julie was born. And it's...
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Today was a good 20 mile ride from my house in Walnut Creek through Alamo to Danville and back. I've done a variation of this...
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