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Squirrels with chainsaws

This has nothing to do with squirrels or chainsaws, I just thought that was a GREAT title. Plus, someone will google 'squirrels with chainsaws" and they will get this. I have always bored my kids talking about places I have been and people I have met. I was thinking today that I wanted to make a list of famous (or almost famous) people I have met. When I say I met them, I am not talking about seeing them across a room or hearing them speak. I am talking about having a conversation or more. Here you go - Political - Al Gore - then Senator Gore from Tennessee. I was his chauffeur for a ride to and from a rally we were having on Capitol Hill. I have a flag that flew over the Capitol and a letter from him thanking me. Richard Burr - then sales manager Burr from Winston-Salem, NC. I was in retail and he was working for a distributor trying to sell us products. Jesse Helms - on various occasions Jesse Jackson - at the time, he was running for president of the U.S. I was on an