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“Clear? Huh! Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child.” - Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890-1977).

My father, 103 years young and still as sharp as a grade one viola player, was in his 70s when he observed, “Have you thought about buying a computer? It strikes me that it would assist you enormously, especially in your profession.” Experience has taught me that the Great Patriarch is unfailingly the fount of wisdom, even on subjects of which he purports to have no knowledge, mostly. Now, I‘ll be the first to admit to deep seated Luddite tendencies. Clearly, it was better in the old days. “Obvs.”, in daughter-speak. And “Lol”, for that matter.

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